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Cloud Consultancy

AWS POC

When undertaking a cloud migration and transformation of your mission-critical servers, applications and workloads, you need assurance that migration will be successful. A Proof of Concept (POC) migration is the most effective method to validate your cloud migration and enterprise cloud adoption.

The AWS platform offers a flexible & scalable environment for the creation of cloud applications and services – to shorten time to market and adapt as demand for your service grows. But if you are unsure how to get started, take advantage of our Proof of Concept service and let i-Upgrade assist in your move to the cloud – guiding you through the process of determining the best model for your business.

 

If you are uncertain if your business would benefit from moving to the Cloud, then we can explain how AWS provides on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage applications. AWS supports multiple programming languages and can integrate with your existing on-premises environment. We can demonstrate how your business can benefit from applications and services on AWS.

We can address your end-to-end application life cycle needs for the move to the Cloud and enable you to prioritize and implement capabilities in the best order from first principles. We can assist in all areas of the AWS best practices and recommendations in development best practices within your organization.

Our POC service reduces time to create, test, provision and deploy applications to the cloud. The industry likes and wants Cloud computing, and AWS offers a flexible, familiar environment for the creation of cloud applications and services.

From Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), Platform as a Service (PAAS) & Software as a Service (SAAS) – our POC service enables you to make the key decisions for your business in the cloud.

AWS Advisory

There are many paths to the cloud. But to gain the efficiency, scalability and agility required to drive innovation, organizations need an anchor partner with cloud experience. From selecting the right vendors to security solutions, business and IT leaders need expert advice to identify and assess the key decisions necessary to deploy and manage cloud environments.

We work closely with companies to understand their entire business environment. To support cloud strategies, we develop business cases with a metrics-driven ROI road map. We also create a framework for an approach (public, private, hybrid), type of cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), reference architectures, security policy and cloud management platform.

Our Cloud Advisory Services include:

  • Cloud readiness assessment
  • Cloud road map and strategy
  • Cloud architecture audit
  • Change management
  • Cloud security

AWS Migration

There are a lot of reasons why customers are migrating to the cloud. Some are migrating to the cloud to increase the productivity of their workforce. We also see a lot of companies with a data center consolidation or rationalization projects migrating to the cloud. The number one reason they choose to move to the cloud is the agility and speed that they can move with. With cloud computing, you are able to spin up thousands of servers in minutes as opposed to the 10 to 18 weeks it typically takes to spin up servers being used on-premises. The AWS Cloud provides more than 90 services - everything from compute, storage, and databases to continuous integration, data analytic, and artificial intelligence - at your fingertips. This means you can go from idea to implementation in seconds rather than months.

 

Every organization will have their own unique reasons and most common drivers that makes customers to migrate to Cloud - Operational Cost, Productivity, Operational Resilience & Business Agility. We follow the patterns we have seen around migrating to the cloud, commonly a 5-phase approach:

  • Phase 1: Migration Preparation and Business Planning
  • Phase 2: Portfolio Discovery and Planning
  • Phase 3: Designing
  • Phase 4: Migrating and Validating Application
  • Phase 5: Operate

 

The six approaches detailed below are common migration strategies employed and build upon “The 5 R’s” that Gartner outlined in 2011.

  • Rehost (“lift and shift”)
  • Replatform (“lift, tinker and shift”)
  • Repurchase (“drop and shop”)
  • Refactor / Re-architect
  • Retire
  • Retain

Workshop

We can conduct workshop on latest Cloud trends & technologies that will help the participant to gain knowledge and get edge over others. The aim for this workshop was to take an in-depth look at how the cloud is maturing as a business model based on professional’s practical experiences