Take the best path to hybrid IT with a Hybrid Cloud Blueprint

6 steps to digital transformation in the cloud

Watch experts from DXC and partner Virtual Clarity share the critical steps you can take now to radically improve business results.

DXC’s approach includes data analytics tools and methods to support business and technology change. We have led more than 1,000 cloud journey workshops focused on building, executing and managing enterprise plans. Our Hybrid Cloud Blueprint consists of six deliverables, delivered in 6 to 8 weeks:

• Application transformation recommendations. Make informed decisions about how applications should be transformed to magnify the benefits of the landing zones.
• Application/workload placement recommendations. Reliably predict the best options for workload optimisation in private, public or hybrid environments through a cloud-agnostic landing zone evaluation. We assess service level, security and compliance parameters, technology fit and return on investment.
• IT operating model considerations. Maximise the benefits of transformation and avoid pitfalls by understanding the IT operating model changes required to effectively support your future hybrid state.
• IT policy considerations. Ensure that required security, controls, governance and placement rules are properly considered.
• Business case. Compare current- and future-state run costs, and application transformation/migration costs, to determine the most appropriate landing zones.
• High-level execution plan. Provide documentation to convince stakeholders of the need to change by providing a clear roadmap and timeline to execute hybrid transformation.

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Comprehensive hybrid cloud services

More than 40 percent of Fortune 100 companies have selected DXC for cloud transformation. Not only do we help you develop the plan, we can also integrate, optimise and manage your workloads, applications and infrastructure. Our comprehensive services include:

• Cloud and workload migration. DXC applies industry-leading tools and practices to migrate more than 60,000+ IT workloads and 2,600 applications each year. Move swiftly to your hybrid platforms of choice — without affecting your business.
• Application transformation. Each year DXC writes 2 billion lines of code for applications that support critical business processes. We ensure that your applications run securely and efficiently — and enable digital change at scale. Our Application Factory approach automates processes to ensure low-risk, high-speed transformation — from replatforming to cloud native.
• Cloud management. DXC provides critical managed services to more than 2,000 public and private cloud customers worldwide across multiple vendors, including Microsoft Azure, AWS and VMware. We ensure full support for managing and monitoring cloud environments, system software, infrastructure configurations and cost management.
• Platform and container services. DXC can help you revolutionise the deployment of applications such as SAP with a full-stack, managed platform as a service, with versions tailored to AWS and Azure. We worked with Red Hat to develop a single container-based platform to build, deploy and manage applications in one place.
• Brokerage and integration. DXC’s automated tools and integration services enable fast, self-service provisioning across multiple clouds, so your IT organisation can serve as an internal cloud broker. We help you manage multiple IT suppliers, minimize service impacts and integrate all of your services.

Accelerate your digital transformation

DXC partners with you to accelerate your move to hybrid cloud by using our world-class expertise and unique intellectual property to confidently guide you from strategy to implementation, as we’ve done for these customers:

• DXC worked with a multinational financial institution to provide a fact-based analysis of the suitability of migrating its applications to a focused platform architecture. The firm found a way to use fewer platforms and the right mix of on- and off-premises clouds. It identified £80 million in annual savings and was able to provision new on-demand environments in less than 1 hour.
• DXC supported a large U.S. bank in its effort to resolve regulatory payment processing recoverability concerns. Through a hybrid IT transformation, the bank achieved full application compliance, the ability to recover 99.8 percent of its critical processes within 6 hours and cost savings of $370 million.
• DXC helped a consumer goods company reduce its data center footprint, increase compute utilisation to 80 percent and move to a preferred cloud platform. This enabled the company to improve its time to market on new technologies.

Access a network of industry-leading partners

When you work with DXC you get access to an extended network of partners that are leading the way to digital change. For example, DXC partners with Virtual Clarity to provide specialised consulting services to plan your transformation. Supporting all industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail and manufacturing, we combine DXC’s deep technology expertise, scale and global reach with Virtual Clarity’s ability to deliver strategic systems transformations — and create the right environment for successful business change.

DXC also works with the world’s top providers of cloud and IT service management solutions, including Microsoft, AWS, VMware and ServiceNow. We’ve worked closely with these partners for decades, we train thousands of our professionals are certified through our partners, and we tailor our services to the partners’ platforms.

Take the next step

Regardless of your IT environment or industry, DXC can help you understand workload needs, transform and migrate applications, provide a secure and stable infrastructure, and deliver a smooth transition to new digitally enabled service models.

Contact us to learn more about our Hybrid Cloud Blueprint.