SnapStart
SnapStart IT discovery tool
Insight’s proprietary data center mapping tool gives you a complete picture of your IT ecosystem with critical information.
Successful IT transformation starts here.
Before undertaking any data center consolidation, workload migration or platform modernization project, you first need to fully understand your IT estate. But the complex combination of cloud, edge, on- and off-premises technology is a mountain to catalog.
With SnapStart, you get a map of your entire data center asset base, equipping your teams with key information to make informed, accurate decisions.
You’ll be able to:
- Uncover hidden assets, forgotten IT components and shadow IT.
- Understand your IT requirements, criticality and dependencies.
- Make data-driven workload placement and cloud decisions.
- Accelerate modernization and transformation activities.
Data center mapping, and so much more
Extensible and scalable
Findings can be imported and exported directly with your existing and third-party tools. Plus it all feeds directly into other Insight tools.
Cost effective
SnapStart scans 10-20 times faster than any other tool, is easy to install and run, and is operated by our skilled consultants.
Extremely thorough
Get a comprehensive map of systems, workloads and applications with dependency, utilization and consumption details.
Cloud ready
Useful information guides your cloud strategy, identifying optimal applications and Platform as a Service (PaaS) candidates.
Solution brief
Minimizing risk to your business
Incomplete maps, missing assets and omitted workloads cost your business time and money. Getting a thorough catalog now smooths IT transformation road bumps later. This helps us to ensure minimal business disruption and successful workload and application matching.
Expert guidance, proven processes
With our deep experience and proprietary tools, we’ll help you migrate faster and more effectively.
30+ years of data center
experience
1500+ services
professionals
3,000 technical
certifications
400k workloads migrated
since 2015
Actionable reports and clear next steps
Dependency maps that are fully filterable and customizable and a Power BI dashboard toolkit help you address migration dependencies, trouble spots and determine what solution designs are the most cost effective.
You’ll know:
- Requirements for access and uptime/downtime
- Which workloads will move where
- When and how cutover will occur
- How risks will be managed and mitigated
Network discovery tool
Cataloging all the assets in your network ensures everything is accounted for. SnapStart digs deep with an end-to-end scan. Our tool can run on a laptop or virtual machine. In addition, network traffic and CPU demand remain constant whether you have 50 or 50,000 servers.
Application discovery tools
Understanding the requirements of each application your business relies on determines the ideal platform fit. We’ll help you understand each application’s dependencies, counts, requirements and critically.
Be confident with modern infrastructure.
We’ll help you assess, deploy, and manage your next-generation AI or IT infrastructure — and align your workloads with the right platform. Connect with our specialists to start your journey.
