Cloud Computing Strategy Services

The Vendor is required to provide cloud computing strategy services.
- At present university has a mixed cloud strategy that is based on a mixture of OCI, Microsoft Azure, GCP, and locally stored files.
- This initiative is imperative as cloud prices and costs are increasing, more products are being bound to specific cloud providers; thus a strategy is required so as not to trap university in a wrong path moving into the future.
- Abilities in working with multiple cloud providers as well as disaster recovery and backups.
- The strategy should also include security systems within cloud environments.
- Services include:
•    Review existing infrastructure and environment.
•    Identify recommended standards, diagrams, procedures, and an analysis of current state.
•    Develop cloud architecture and strategy leveraging best practices
•    Design environment setup (subscriptions, resource groups, networking), including subscription and price recommendations
•    Design possible identity and access management strategies
•    Design business continuity strategy
•    Design and implementation greater than or equal to current institute standards
•    Environment must integrate and support migration of on premise systems
•    Develop a proof of concept and pilot plan that involves minimal risk and a specified timeline and roadmap
•    Provide a detailed project plan as part of the strategy recommendations
•    Detail a holistic cloud data center strategy for university
•    Disaster recovery and security provisions.