Stephen Matthews & Associates Limited
Cloud IaaS Service Provider Selection Solution
Cloud IaaS Service Provider Selection Solution comprises a consultancy based resource with toolkits that allow buyers to gather their IaaS requirements and map them automatically against G-Cloud service providers VM offerings in order to make the best value for money selection of provider and service to support their applications
Features
- Establishes business requirements - technical, security, service, commercial
- Defines IaaS VM configurations, block storage, memory, data transfer, volumes
- Compares business requirements and VMs with G-Cloud provider offerings
- Creates Longlists and shorlists of capable services for buyers
- Provides cloud provider evaluation to G-Cloud Buyers Guide
- Defines G-Cloud call-offs contracts and special conditions
- Tools to monitor price-performance data of CSP's and VM's
- Unique 30 point data model for MEAT calculation
- TCO Comparison tool for true CPU Core Hour between CSP's
Benefits
- Reduces commercial risks in procurement and contracting
- Brings transparency and comparison of cloud provider performance and pricing
- Maintains cloud commercial benchmarking
- Supports selection of 'fit for purpose' cloud services
- Ensures appropriate contracting for IaaS services
- Proper selection of IaaS VM's and providers for applications performance
Pricing
£62.50 to £118.75 per person per hour
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Framework
G-Cloud 10
Service ID
527421853000606
Contact
Planning
Planning service | Yes |
How the planning service works |
Stephen Matthews & Associates provide advisory services together with supporting tools and templates to help buyers in the commercial aspects of planning, set-up, deployment and maintenance of their IaaS cloud services. Stephen Matthews & Associates provide buyers with sourcing models, commercial strategies and procurement and contracting tools for IaaS cloud services selection and benchmarking |
Planning service works with specific services | No |
Training
Training service provided | No |
Setup and migration
Setup or migration service available | No |
Quality assurance and performance testing
Quality assurance and performance testing service | No |
Security testing
Security services | No |
Ongoing support
Ongoing support service | No |
Service scope
Service constraints | No constraints are anticipated |
User support
Email or online ticketing support | Email or online ticketing |
Support response times | Response within 2 working days |
User can manage status and priority of support tickets | No |
Phone support | Yes |
Phone support availability | 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday |
Web chat support | No |
Support levels |
Phone support response is 2 working days An account manager is provided |
Resellers
Supplier type | Not a reseller |
Staff security
Staff security clearance | Other security clearance |
Government security clearance | Up to Security Clearance (SC) |
Pricing
Price | £62.50 to £118.75 per person per hour |
Discount for educational organisations | Yes |
Documents
Pricing document | View uploaded document |
Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card | View uploaded document |
Service definition document | View uploaded document |
Terms and conditions document | View uploaded document |