Cloud Migration

How

Migrating to the Cloud

Whether moving a simple application or complex system or entire data center to the cloud, it is much more than simply reproducing the current physical servers identically in a cloud-based data center.

Treating public clouds the same way as an on-premises data center is the number one reason why cloud migrations fail. The very nature of the cloud requires that the application or system or data center be examined at a higher level first and have the migration planned to appropriately utilize cloud resources. Some systems are perfectly suitable for a lift-and-shift, where there are constant, even system loads and usage. Others, particularly where there is high variability in the volume the system processes, need to be adapted to the elastic and scalable nature of cloud resources or there will surely be over-provisioning leading to wasted time and money.

We can prepare your migration that accounts for all of these variables so that the result is an efficient, flexible and resilient system.
Migration engagements tend to be medium-term – as short as one month for simple applications with a well, known pattern; up to a year or longer for larger, integrated systems or data centers, which effectively become multiple related migrations.