Cloud & On-Prem Postureit.cloud_on_prem
P1
Explicit hosting questions. Captures provider mix, datacentre/colo footprint, virtualisation, storage and DR.
Questions (10)
| id | prompt | scope | category | priority | artefact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| it.cloud_on_prem.q01 | Per subsidiary: workload split between on-prem servers / colo / public cloud (rough %). | S | Hosting Model | P0 | table |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q02 | Cloud providers in use across the group — Azure, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, others. Active tenants and ownership per provider. | G | Cloud Providers | P0 | table |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q03 | Cloud strategy intent — single-provider preference vs multi-cloud (workloads remain separate)? Decision basis (cost, parent-KSA alignment, data residency). | G | Cloud Providers | P0 | text |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q04 | Per site: datacentre/colo footprint — racks, power, cooling, generator/UPS, physical security. Operating cost per year. | S | Datacentre / Colo | P0 | table |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q05 | Physical and virtual server count per site. Top 10 workloads by criticality and OS. Virtualisation platform (VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix, KVM, etc.). | S | Server Inventory | P0 | table |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q06 | End-of-life / end-of-support hardware count and projected refresh cost (next 24 months). | S | Server Inventory | P0 | table |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q07 | Per subsidiary: storage footprint (TB), tier mix (block/file/object), backup tooling, RPO/RTO targets, last successful DR test. | S | Storage & Backup | P0 | table |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q08 | Group-level backup standard — does one exist? M365 backup tool (Veeam/Druva/none — native retention is not backup). | G | Backup Strategy | P0 | checklist |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q09 | DR sites, replication targets (RPO/RTO), DR runbook owner, last invocation. Per-subsidiary capability. | G | DR / BCP | P0 | file |
| it.cloud_on_prem.q10 | Chennai GCC hosting model — primarily SaaS-first, parent-KSA cloud tenant, India-region cloud (Azure Central India), or hybrid? | GCC | GCC Hosting | P0 | text |
Decisions related to this workstream (1)
| id | title | scope | priority | evidence questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| it.decisions.d09 | Backup standard for M365 — Veeam, Druva, alternative. | G | P0 | 2 |