Whether you are drawing up a Cloud Strategy, considering migrating some applications to the Cloud, automating repetitive Cloud tasks, implementing SysOps, DevOps, or setting up a ‘born in the Cloud’ business application – draw on our experience to help you architect robust and secure solutions.
Ensuring successful migration to the cloud is a complex process. It requires a thorough technical assessment of the on-premise workload. It also calls for an expertise in infrastructure, databases, in-depth knowledge of Public Cloud provider’s architecture, technologies, tools and pricing.
Our team will assess your applications for Cloud readiness. For technically feasible applications, a solution will be architected detailing Cloud infrastructure elements and their configurations. Cloud service providers are also evaluated on cost and technical parameters, and we recommend providers who are a best fit, after factoring in performance and cost optimization.
A detailed project plan will be developed that addresses the when, what and how of the actual migration. Robustness of the solution, security, minimum downtime, and seamless switchover will be prime considerations of the plan.
We follow a structured methodology to assess the feasibility of migrating an application to the Cloud Following a thorough analysis of the workload, our consulting team provides a migration plan that covers every single detail required for a successful migration. We follow a structured methodology in developing a migration plan.
Workload Assessment
Following are some of the factors we consider during our assessment:
- Upstream and downstream dependencies and evaluation of implications of migration to the cloud
- User and/or customer impact post migration
- A cost-benefit analysis accompanied with a details of direct and indirect cost implications, and re-purposing of existing infrastructure
- Ease of Portability, of the workload to the public or hybrid cloud
- Workload performance assessment across relevant geographies
- Feasibility of complying with Security standards (such as HIPAA or PCI-DSS) that may be applicable to the workload and the organization
- Storage, disaster recovery and business continuity implications
- Ease of roll-back in the event of unforeseen problems
- Assessment for best-fit Service Provider for Public Clouds
Important: Based on our Assessment, it is possible that our recommendation could also be, to avoid moving the workload to the cloud.
The Migration Blueprint
Our Migration Blueprint provides a detailed plan that includes vendors, architecture, configurations, security measures and estimated costs
Based on the Assessment, we draw up a detailed architecture and Migration plan. This will serve as a blueprint for implementation. Here are some details that our Migration plan will cover:
Technical architecture
A detailed technical diagram that will list servers, operating systems, network details, DNS requirements, SSO and SSL design, bandwidth assessments, storage, backup, load-balancing, application delivery, backup devices, business continuity design.
Vendor and Provider data
The Migration Blueprint will list out recommended service providers. It will also list out the Bill of Materials and Services – as detailed in the provider’s catalogs.
Migration plan
A detailed project plan with all the infrastructure details, milestones, people, tools, recommended vendors and an initial cost estimation. It will also cover training needs pre and post deployment to the cloud. Detailed workload monitoring and management plan will also be a part of the migration plan. Roll-back and contingency plans will be developed.
Implementing the Migration
We adopt a Project Management approach to implementing your migration
Implementation is always from a Migration plan, and if one does not exist, we make the plan taking into consideration all parameters detailed earlier as part of our Migration consulting.
Technical review
We review the technical details in the plan, and revisit the Cloud architectural plan to ensure that performance and cost are optimized. Any changes from the time of the plan to the time of implementation will be precipitated by this exercise and suitable changes made to the plan.
Project Management
A project plan is made with timelines and milestones. Project members are identified within NCMME and Client, and the project is kicked off. We follow best practices in Project Management.
Test, transition and sign-off
The Migration implementation is tested at different stages, and subjected to a pre-defined and agreed upon testing by our teams and users. On successful testing, the transition plan gets into play and project sign-off is done once the Application is successfully migrated to the Cloud.
Why NCMME for your Cloud Migration
Cloud with NCMME. Experience Certainty.
Our technical teams have migrated several applications to the Public Cloud. We have worked with all the major Cloud Providers and our team has several Solution Architects. Our extensive partner ecosystem ensures support across several Cloud technologies and platforms. We understand security and security compliance on-premises and in the Cloud.
Our teams have extensive experience in IT infrastructure, spanning servers, storage, networking, virtualization, power, telephony and many business and enterprise productivity applications.
Our managed services include monitoring and managing your applications and cloud infrastructure for availability, security and performance.
Why Move to the Cloud ?
As the demand for agility and flexibility grows, companies are shifting their traditional in-house IT systems and applications to the cloud to leverage the multiple benefits of the technology in terms of efficiency and profitability. Whether be it public, private, hybrid or a mix of various models, the use of cloud computing has expanded into almost every organization and new applications continue to evolve.
Why AWS for Cloud ?
With Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can provision compute power, storage, and other resources, gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. At NCMME, we help you build a cloud migration strategy for moving your IT systems and applications to the AWS Cloud, with minimal cost and effort so that you can reduce your capital expenses, minimize support and administrative costs, and retain the performance, security, and reliability requirements your business demands.
Phase 1: Cloud Migration Assessment: Taking the first step
The Cloud Migration Assessment (Migration Readiness Assessment) is the most preliminary step of the Cloud migration journey. This assessment provides a sense of understanding for enterprises as to what they migrate to public Cloud and how far they have moved in their Cloud journey. It helps them know the current strengths and weaknesses of the existing infrastructure and future course of action.
The cloud migration process evaluates an organization’s entire technical environment, making it easier to plan, prepare and execute Cloud migration efficiently following the best industry practices. Such as assessment will help enterprises take the pressure off of their team as it helps them focus on critical areas that need to be addressed before carrying out migration journey.
Our NCMME cloud migration team works closely with customers and cross-functional team leaders to align their migration priorities and critical requirements. Our experts will set up application requirements, dependencies, and current pain points and help enterprises maximize their benefits of Cloud usage.
What does Migration Readiness Assessment monitor?
MRA provides many crucial insights about the migration process, but three most important among them are:
Financial analysis: MRA provides a high-level financial analysis to define the value of the Cloud and help the enterprise understand the total cost associated with migration and savings associated with it.
Application readiness: It checks whether or not the system is ready to be moved to the public Cloud. It analyses whether the applications will function normally after being transferred to an external Cloud.
Get the business stakeholders view: After the assessment, we will showcase the stakeholders on the value add, cost savings and benefits by moving to cloud from the perspectives of Cloud Adoption framework which are Business, People, Governance, Operations,Platform and Security.
Phase 2: MOBILIZATION:
Mobilize phase is a critical phase to perform when dealing with a large migration because it provides the enterprise with the necessary plan, environment, and experience to execute a successful migration. This phase involves preparing the business case and conducting team training to laying the Cloud environment foundation with the pilot migration.
Mobilization phase is designed to create foundational capability both in the organization and the Cloud environment using AWS Landing zone, including hands-on migration experience focused on security and operation automation. During the Mobilize Phase, proof of concept (POC) tests is performed to ensure that the migration plan works and that the procedures and documentation are ready for execution.
NCMME engineering experts help enterprises successfully migrate to the public cloud while strengthening an agile and scalable delivery culture, team structure, and change management process. Although a dedicated phase is not always necessary, leveraging the methodology and strategy will ensure enterprises’ workload is moved efficiently and securely.
The mobilization approach includes a defined set of activities listed below:
- Detailed portfolio discovery
- Migration governance
- Security, risk, and compliance
- People: skills, culture, change, and leadership
- Clear business case.
The mobilization phase provides some crucial benefits to enterprises such as:
- This phase helps enterprise improves their IT staff’s skills set and competency for migration and organizational transformation.
- Enterprises can define and automate security, risk, and compliance policies to accommodate operational controls through the mobilization phase.
- The mobilization phase enables enterprises to establish their Cloud operating model and run applications in production capacity.
Phase 3: MIGRATION & OPERATIONS:
The post mobilization phase comes to the migration stage. This phase involves taking the plans you have developed and executing them successfully. Here a company moves some or all of its data centers capabilities into the Cloud and its applications.
This phase is significant for mission-critical projects that cannot sustain a longer downtime. NCMME team ensures to follow all the best practices and Well-Architected Reviews and use the right set of tools and methodologies while migrating an enterprise application to the Cloud. We take care that each workload that has been individually migrated is working properly in the new environment before migrating another workload. The migrations would be planned as sprints in agile mode to ensure planned migration and timelines.
Once the applications are migrated, we help the customers maintain their workloads with the help of our Managed Services Offering.We also help the customers to assess and modernize thier workloads on the Cloud.