Migration to Cloud (Implementation)

Service Description

Migration to cloud is a process of moving your on-premise infrastructure to cloud environment.

The goal of migration to cloud is to move services and applications, from on-premise infrastructure to the most effective environment, based on factors such as performance, security and cost.

The challenge of migration to cloud is to maintain data integrity, security and business continuity. Without planned and systematic approach migration to cloud might have negative effects on business operation. Our goal is to identify does risks and take measures that will help us minimize possible problems.

Choosing Cloud Provider and Deployment Model

It is very important to analyse your current and future IT needs to find the solution that best fits your needs in terms of available services and cost.

Businesses usually need to combine different deployment models for different apps and services.

Each deployment model has its purpose:

Public cloud – Very flexible in terms of resources, all of the systems are kept in public cloud environment.
Private cloud – Very capital-intensive, but more efficient for certain situations. Usually good for large enterprises.
Hybrid cloud – Best for system that need to keep critical data locally while using public resources in times of increased demand.

Cloud providers:

Amazon AWS – Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.
Microsoft Azure – Cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centres.
7o enterprise cloud – Enterprise cloud solution developed and managed by our expert team. 7oEC is based on VMWare virtualization technology, it is a result of more than 20 years of experience in IT service management.

Preparing for Migration to Cloud

The next step is to prepare the business for migration to cloud. It is important to identify readiness of each departments and service for migration to cloud. Also, some services are more critical than other, all of these things need to be taken in to account when creating migration to cloud plan.

Moving to cloud involves certain risks to your business. It is important to assess key areas of risk so we can create successful plans to address them:

Security & Compliance – In the cloud data is stored on a third-party hardware. Some regulatory compliance may require insights in to where data is stored and who has access to it.
Data and app integration – Ensuring that all applications, services and data with interdependencies maintain their connections.
Enabling Technology – Your business needs to have the appropriate technology to enable certain services to be retrieved from the cloud.
IT Skills & Roles – Cloud adoption changes the roles and responsibilities inside your IT department. We will help you to identify how will cloud adoption affect your internal IT organization and what skills your employees might need.

Implementation

Migration to cloud is a unique process that can take from a couple of weeks to a couple of months. This variation is based on company’s size, the number of services to be migrated and the level of compliance required by your services.

Our goal is to create a clear project plan based on the previous analysis that will help us meet your company’s continuity and compliance goals.

Project plan includes:

Strategy for critical apps and data
Staff education
Milestones for migration

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