Hosting Platform: Adoption Planning and Business Case

Customer Challenge

• Establish adoption pipeline for the next generation compute hosting platform against a very large application estate
• Build multi-year business case aligned to the adoption pipeline

How Citihub Helped

• Defined high level platform adoption model, aligned to key platform releases (Linux & Windows)
• Constructed multi-year business case based on future-state operating model and cost/benefits of new internal cloud platform
• Identified target applications for initial adoption across the global application community
• Worked with early adopters to migrate to the new platform and managed adoption challenges/blockers with the central engineering teams

Results

• Adoption approach defined and agreed across IT stakeholders
• Business case model (incl. assumptions/variables) ratified with head of infrastructure and signed-off with IT finance
• Oversaw initial adoption through to production for first 5 pilot applications (>500 servers)