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Lumerai Cloud Placement Framework™
Where should each workload operate?
When to use LCPF
Make workload placement decisions based on business value, total cost, risk, operational fit, and strategic flexibility. LCPF evaluates the appropriate environment for each workload as priorities and economics change.
Who it helps
CIOs, CFOs, enterprise architects, infrastructure leaders, boards, and private equity operating partners making cloud and modernization decisions.
What we evaluate
- Business Value — revenue enablement, customer experience, agility, scalability, and productivity.
- Financial Impact — five-year total cost, including licensing, operations, migration, and exit costs.
- Risk — security, privacy, compliance, resilience, sovereignty, and vendor concentration.
- Operational Fit — performance, latency, integration, skills, support, and monitoring.
- Strategic Flexibility — portability, vendor dependency, M&A readiness, and future modernization.
Evaluate the right home for each workload
- Public cloud — assess elasticity, digital services, global reach, and experimentation.
- Private cloud — assess control, predictable demand, and sensitive workloads.
- Hybrid cloud — assess integration and incremental modernization across environments.
- SaaS — assess standard business capabilities and operational overhead.
- Edge — assess local processing, latency, and operational resilience.
How decisions are interpreted
Placement scoring evaluates business value (30%), financial impact (20%), risk (20%), operational fit (15%), and strategic flexibility (15%). Each dimension is assessed on a 1–5 scale and summarized on a 0–100 scale. Scores compare candidate environments alongside costs, constraints, and executive judgment; a score alone does not determine the deployment model.
What you receive
- Placement recommendations by workload
- Total cost of ownership analysis and risk profile
- Operational readiness and strategic flexibility assessment
- Cloud portfolio heat map and vendor dependency analysis
- Migration or repatriation priorities and a three-year roadmap
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