RISC Networks

RISC Networks built a cloud-delivered analytics platform that helps organisations plan how to move their on-premise IT to the cloud. The business was acquired by Flexera, and its platform now sits alongside Flexera's cloud management and optimisation products.

What RISC Networks offers

• Infrastructure discovery — finds the full range of servers, applications and devices in an organisation's IT estate.
• Business service mapping — groups what it finds into the business services that depend on it.
• Application dependency mapping — shows how applications rely on one another before anything is moved.
• Migration planning — assesses, ranks and costs the applications due to move, broken down by cloud provider.
• Client portal — existing users log in to a dedicated RISC Networks portal.

Who it works with

IT executives and their teams who need to decide which workloads to move to the cloud, and in what order. Flexera also publishes a Foundation and CloudScape datasheet covering the platform.

Key facts

• Owner: Flexera, following an acquisition
• Products: Foundation and CloudScape
• Delivery: software as a service