Drawing on years of experience working with numerous government departments and agencies on data center consolidation, modernization and operations, Criterion helps its customers in two key areas:
- Transitioning applications and data to the cloud
- Transforming, consolidating, and managing modernized, scalable, and secure data centers
Our streamlined processes for assessing current systems, then building a flexible roadmap that provides mature, scalable, and secure capabilities is integral to the overall success of our modernization efforts. The result is high-confidence project execution and a greater likelihood of successfully meeting government service/mission needs today and into the future.
Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) – The Cloud CoE cross-functional team is the conduit for transforming the way our customers transition to the cloud. They understand the various cloud adoption frameworks and use them as a guide for implementing cloud technology aligned with our customer’s business goals and strategy. Learn more about how our Cloud CoE can accelerate cloud adoption here: https://criterion-sys.com/centers-of-excellence#cloud/
Core Capabilities
Working through the Cloud CoE, Criterion builds the foundation for a successful cloud migration and encourages a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing. Our team members set the agenda of the activities articulated in each cloud adoption framework and advise on and implement solutions, providing both thought leadership and hands-on support across Criterion’s programs.
Criterion accelerates cloud adoption by:
- Driving momentum across the organization
- Developing reusable frameworks for cloud governance
- Managing cloud knowledge and learning
- Overseeing cloud usage and plans for scale
- Aligning cloud offerings to the larger organizational strategy
- Enabling application migration to leverage the true benefits of cloud frameworks
Our core capabilities include:
- Cloud governance
- Cloud management
- Cost optimization
- Onboarding
- Security
- Strategic alignment
- Accelerating cloud adoption
- Optimizing application architecture for cloud environments
- Increased cloud product/feature use
- Well-designed cloud architectures
- Reusable tools and artifacts
- Improved data usage and management
- Standardized processes and methodologies
- Scale and optimization preparation
- Tailored cloud architectures for business needs
- Developed practices that are specific to the organization
Criterion offers the following cloud/data center management services:
- Application Modernization
- Capacity Management
- Cloud Computing
- Computing Platform Automation/Orchestration
- Contingency Planning, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery
- Cybersecurity and Compliance
- Data Center Facilities Operations
- Enterprise Services Portfolio Management
- Information Technology Service Management
- Network Operations Center (NOC) Management
- Rapid Provisioning
- Service Asset and Configuration Management
- Storage Management
- Virtualization and Consolidation
Cloud/Data Management Thought Leadership
Here are our latest blog posts on cloud/data center management-related topics written by Criterion subject matter experts.
Cloud Data Management: Single Source of Truth
How to architect an information system such that there is a single source of truth (SSOT) for every data element.
Driving Principles of Modern Data Management
Successful implementations of cloud-based data management require an approach that ensures the solution aligns with the goals of the business.
Criterion’s Cloud/Data Center Management Capability Growing Thanks to Kansas City Team
This article introduces two key cloud/data center leaders at Criterion: Tim Stevens and Kim Weaver.