Save on your Licensing
A recent report conducted from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) shows that on average customers can save 77% on Windows Server and 45% on SQL Server licensing cost. It also showed that first party license cost represent an average of 3 times the compute, storage, and networking cost on AWS. License costs are a significant part of the total cloud TCO and need to be taken in consideration when costs are an important factor in your customers migration to the cloud.
AWS Optimization & Licensing Assessment
An Optimization and Licensing Assessment at WWT can help organizations assess and optimize their current on-premises and existing cloud environments. The assessment focuses on understanding the licensing demands for various software applications such as Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SQL Server, VMWare, and Oracle. WWT conducts a discovery and assessment of an organization's readiness to migrate applications to AWS and generates a reliable roadmap of actions to build momentum and capability. The OLA at WWT is designed for organizations who are already on AWS or are interested in AWS.
The OLA can help organizations understand their existing deployments, application performance, and contracts, right-size their resources, develop a roadmap to the AWS Cloud, and reduce or eliminate costs by using existing investments and paying only for what they use.
The optimization and licensing assessment enables organizations to model their deployment options using their existing licensing entitlements and reduce overall costs by an average of 36% in the process.
What to expect
WWT works with your team to carry out the OLA and it requires minimal time investment from your staff.
Steps:
- Tool Deployment - 1-2 Weeks (customer but mostly WWT)
- Data Collection - 2 Weeks (automated)
- Results Generation - 4-6 Business Days (performed by WWT)
- Generate Deliverables - 5-7 Business Days (performed by WWT)
- Final Readout - 4 hours (customer and WWT)
The final report from the assessment includes detailed answers to all questions and issues discussed during the main assessment session, plus a summary of expert observations, recommended next steps, and a statement of work (SOW) that details how WWT can help resolve any identified gaps or challenges.