Technology Solutions
Public and Private Cloud
As cloud environments grow more complex, unpredictable spend has become the norm. Lightstone offers comprehensive public, private, and hybrid cloud advisory services, crafted to protect IT and infrastructure leaders from rising, unpredictable spend. Our approach combines unbiased provider evaluation with spend and utilization analysis, ensuring a cloud strategy that scales with the business, not against it.
Public and Private Cloud Solutions With Lightstone
We help you assess your current cloud environment, compare public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud options, and evaluate providers on cost, performance, resiliency, and governance fit. That includes migration planning, right-sizing, spend and utilization analysis, and support through negotiation so the environment you land on actually matches your workload requirements.
Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Evaluation
Colocation and Migration Planning
Cloud Spend and Usage Analysis
FinOps and ROI Modeling
Managed Cloud and Disaster Recovery Support
Provider Sourcing and Comparison
Contract and Pricing Support
The Outcomes We Drive
- Lower and more predictable cloud spend.
- Clear ownership and visibility into resource usage across departments.
- Reduced risk from disconnected environments and backup and disaster recovery gaps.
- A cloud strategy that scales with the business instead of quietly draining budget every month.
The Advantage We Provide Tech Leaders
Cloud decisions influence cost, business continuity, and flexibility for years, and the market has more provider models and pricing variables than ever. Lightstone evaluates your environment without a provider agenda, helping you find savings, close governance gaps, and move forward with a strategy grounded in your actual workloads, not a vendor's roadmap.
Talk to a Cloud AdvisorWhen to Engage Lightstone
Cloud spend keeps climbing with no clear visibility into why.
A cloud or managed service relationship increasingly feels like a reseller arrangement rather than a partnership.
Nobody owns accountability for resource usage.
Workloads are unused, underutilized, or duplicated across environments.
Backup and disaster recovery gaps exist.
Multi-cloud environments are disconnected, and there's no FinOps practice in place to catch any of it.
How Lightstone Works With You
Assess the Environment
We start with your current workloads, providers, spend, utilization, resiliency, and governance practices so every recommendation is grounded in how your cloud environment operates today.
Evaluate the Options With You
We compare public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud approaches and providers across cost, performance, resiliency, governance fit, and workload requirements.
Source End to End
We support migration planning, provider evaluation, proposal analysis, and negotiation so the environment you choose is technically sound and commercially competitive.
Tech Leaders Have 5 Options. One Has Their Interests Built In.
Every hour spent on research, RFPs, and pricing comparisons is an hour not spent on strategy that moves your company forward. That's the true cost of the first four options.
Option 1: Trust Supplier Sales Reps
Every supplier sales rep has exactly one job: sell their company's product, whether or not it's the right fit for you. Many will say anything to hit quota. And reps change companies constantly, so the person who sold you the deal is rarely the person still there when you need support two months later. Zero incentive for honesty.
Option 2: Trust Traditional Consultants
Hourly consultants get paid more the longer an engagement runs, so the incentive points the wrong way. Many are also tied to a short list of supplier relationships they need to keep fed, which limits how neutral the advice actually is.
Option 3: Work With VARs and MSPs
Resellers and managed service providers can only sell and support what they're certified on, typically a handful of suppliers. That's not vendor neutrality, and it's a narrower version of the same bias.
Option 4: Do It Yourself
Technology now changes faster than most companies can make decisions. Good decisions requireheadcount most companies won't fund. Going it alone means becoming the market expert in multiple technologies, on top of your actual job, on a market that changes weekly.
Option 5: Lightstone Technology Advisor: The Truth
Lightstone puts in months of work at no cost to our clients before a purchase is made. If we get it wrong, we lose because we are profitable only if our clients come back. We get paid the same regardless of what supplier you choose. Our incentive is the same as yours: find the best fit, and keep it working for the next 10 years, not just get a deal signed.