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Our Hybrid Cloud Migration Consulting Service is designed to help organizations seamlessly transition their applications, data, and infrastructure to the cloud. As businesses continue to evolve, so too does their technology infrastructure. Many businesses now rely on multiple cloud providers for their computing and storage needs. However, managing multiple cloud environments can be challenging. This is where our Hybrid Multi-Cloud Migration services come in. Our team will help you seamlessly migrate your existing applications and data to a hybrid multi-cloud environment. We have the expertise to ensure that your migration is done efficiently, with minimal disruption to your business.

Our Multi Cloud Strategy is designed to help organizations efficiently integrate and manage their on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud infrastructure. By incorporating industry best practices, leveraging leading technologies, and providing expert guidance, we enable businesses to optimize their IT resources, enhance security and compliance, and drive overall performance.

Offerings:
Assessment of current IT infrastructure, applications, and data to determine cloud readiness
Development of a comprehensive cloud migration strategy aligned with business objectives
Identification of key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics for successful cloud migration
Evaluation and recommendation of the most suitable hybrid cloud platforms and technologies for your organization
Integration of selected cloud platforms with your existing infrastructure and workflows
Design and implementation of application and data migration strategies, including rehosting (lift and shift), refactoring (replatforming), and rearchitecting (modernization)
Development of secure and efficient data migration processes, including data cleansing and transformation
Validation of migrated applications and data to ensure consistency and performance
Implementation of infrastructure as code (IAC) solutions using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Chef
Design and deployment of containerization and orchestration solutions using technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Evaluation and implementation of hybrid cloud security best practices, including encryption, IAM, and network security
Assistance with regulatory compliance requirements, including GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS
Development of security monitoring and incident response strategies across hybrid cloud environments

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OUR MIGRATION APPROACH:

The process of moving applications, workloads, and data from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud typically involves the following 4 steps: ( Discover, Build, Deploy & Operate )

1. DISCOVER:

The Discovery stage is the first stage in the cloud migration process. Its goal is to discover and assess the existing IT environment to determine which systems and applications are suitable for migration to the cloud. Overall, the Discovery stage is critical to the success of a cloud migration project. By carefully assessing the existing IT environment and developing a detailed migration plan, organizations can ensure a smooth and efficient migration process. By following these steps, organizations can ensure that their migration is well-planned and executed, resulting in a successful transition to the cloud.

STEPS:

Define the scope of the migration project and establish the objectives for the migration.
Identify the stakeholders who will be involved in the migration project, such as IT staff, business leaders, and end-users.
Discover, Analyse and Document the in-scope systems: This step involves identifying the systems that are in scope for migration to the cloud. This may include conducting a thorough inventory of all applications, databases, and infrastructure components. The goal is to get a comprehensive view of the systems that will be impacted by the migration.Create an inventory of the assets that need to be migrated, including applications, data, and infrastructure components.
Assess the readiness, priority and roadmap for desired cloud solution: Once the in-scope systems have been identified, the next step is to assess their readiness for migration to the cloud. This involves evaluating the current state of each system, including its architecture, dependencies, and performance. Based on this analysis, the team can determine which systems are most suitable for migration and prioritise them accordingly.Evaluate the applications and data to determine their dependencies, performance characteristics, and suitability for migration to the cloud.
Identify the appropriate migration approach for each asset, such as rehosting, replatforming, or refactoring.
Build the Target Architecture and Migration Plan: Once the readiness assessment is complete, the team can begin to design the target architecture for the cloud solution. This involves selecting the appropriate cloud platform and determining the best approach for migrating each system. The team must also consider factors such as security, scalability, governance and cost optimization. Finally, the team will develop an implementation plan that outlines the steps required to migrate each system to the cloud, including any necessary changes to the architecture, infrastructure, or applications. This plan should include a detailed timeline, resource allocation, and contingency planning for any potential issues or delays.

Deliverables of Discover Stage:

Target Logical & Physical Architecture
Deployment Architecture
Integration Architecture
Migration Plan
2. BUILD:

Overall, the build stage of a cloud migration is focused on implementing the migration plan developed during the discover stage. By following these steps, organizations can ensure that their migration is well-designed, constructed, and tested, resulting in a successful transition to the cloud.

STEPS:

Design: The first step in the build stage is to design the solutions according to the roadmap and plan developed during the discover stage. This involves creating a detailed architecture for the cloud environment and selecting the appropriate tools and technologies to support the migration.
Construct: The next step is to construct the solutions, which involves setting up the cloud infrastructure and migrating the applications and data to the cloud environment. This step also includes involves creating accounts, setting up landing zones & security measures, and configuring network connectivity, configuring the applications, services and databases to ensure they are optimized for the cloud.
Review: Once the solutions have been constructed, the team will review them to ensure they meet the requirements outlined in the migration plan for both functional and non functional requirements. This may involve conducting tests to validate the functionality and performance of the applications in the cloud environment.
Iterative development: Cloud migration is an iterative process, so the team will need to continue refining and optimizing the solutions based on feedback from testing and monitoring. This may involve making adjustments to the architecture, infrastructure, or applications to improve performance or address issues that arise during testing.
Validation and launch: Once the solutions have been tested and refined, the team will validate that the implementation is successful and coordinate any change control activities required for launch. This may include coordinating with stakeholders to ensure that the migration does not disrupt business operations and communicating any changes to end-users or customers.

Deliverables of Build Stage:

Final Architecture & Designs
Signed off Cloud Environments [Non Prod & Prod @ Dark Mode]
Signed off Operations Automations
3. DEPLOY:

Overall, the Deploy stage of a cloud migration is focused on deploying and validating the migrated solutions in the production environment. By following these steps, organizations can ensure that their migration is successful, and their applications and data are available and performing well in the cloud environment.

STEPS:

Deploy: The first step in the Deploy stage is to deploy the solutions that were designed, constructed, and reviewed in the Build stage. This involves transferring the solutions to the cloud environment and configuring them for production use. This may involve transferring real data sets, deploying new instances of applications, or using continous migration tools to automate the process.
Release Strategy: Selecting the better strategy for Go-Live is very important for any migration. Both Blue Green Release and Canary Release are popular strategies in cloud production environments, and the choice between the two strategies depends on the specific needs and requirements of the organization.
Validate: Once the release starategy finalized, the team will need to validate that the implemented solutions, system functions, and technical stability meet the requirements and expectations of the migration plan. This may involve testing the solutions in the production environment to ensure that they are functioning correctly and performing well. It includes conducting load testing to ensure that they can handle the expected workload.
Sign Off: Once the production validation is complete, the team will need to obtain sign-off from stakeholders to ensure that the migration is complete and successful. This may involve obtaining sign-off from business leaders, IT staff, and end-users to ensure that everyone is satisfied with the migrated solutions.
Go Live: Finally, after sign-off is obtained, the migrated solutions can be officially launched and made available to end-users. This may involve communicating the changes to end-users, training them on how to use the new solutions, and monitoring the solutions to ensure that they continue to perform well in the production environment.

Deliverables of Deploy Stage:

Platform Handover Document
Signed off Cloud Environments @ Green Mode
Signed off Operations Automations
4. OPERATE:

The Operate stage follows the Deploy stage in a cloud migration and involves ongoing monitoring and management of the cloud platform to ensure that it is performing as expected and addressing any issues that arise. By following these steps, organizations can ensure that their cloud platform continues to perform as expected and is optimized for cost and security, leading to maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

STEPS:

Monitoring and Management: The Monitoring and Management stage is focused on the ongoing management of the cloud platform. This involves monitoring the platform to ensure that it is performing as expected and addressing any issues that arise.
SLOs/SLAs: Service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs) define the level of performance that the cloud platform should achieve. The team will need to monitor the platform to ensure that it is meeting these objectives and agreements.
Continuous automation: Continuous automation involves automating the management of the cloud platform to ensure that it is running efficiently and effectively. This may involve automating tasks such as provisioning, scaling, and monitoring.
Cost management: Cost management is an important aspect of cloud management, as cloud platforms can be expensive if not managed properly. The team will need to monitor the platform to ensure that it is not exceeding the budget and optimize cloud consumption to reduce costs. Analyzing cloud consumption and cost optimization is essential to maintaining the performance of the cloud platform while reducing costs. The team will need to continually monitor and analyze cloud consumption to identify areas where costs can be optimized.
Security management: Security management involves ensuring that the cloud platform is secure from cyber threats. The team will need to continuously monitor the platform to identify and address any security vulnerabilities that arise.
SRE hardening: Site reliability engineering (SRE) hardening involves identifying and addressing any vulnerabilities in the cloud platform that could impact reliability. The team will need to monitor the platform to identify any issues and take steps to address them.
Finally, the migrated applications and workloads can be optimized to take advantage of the scalability, elasticity, and cost-saving benefits of the cloud. This may involve fine-tuning performance, re-architecting applications, or using services like Container Service Kubernetes Services to optimize resource utilization.

Deliverables of Operate Stage:

Operation Handbook
KPI & KRA of Systems Performance
Signed off Monitoring Dashboards

For more detailed insights about the “Hybrid Cloud Migration Handbook,” we recommend clicking the download button.

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