Moving to the Cloud

Have you been sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see how the industry fares with its race into the cloud? If you have, that's understandable: The cloud is a relatively new phenomenon and there are all of those well-publicized concerns about security, availability and performance.

However, while you've been waiting, the cloud has been maturing rapidly, and many organizations are finding that, with the proper guidance, at least some of the custom applications in their portfolio are suitable to the cloud and are candidates for dramatic cost savings.

That's where we come in. Using our real-life experience in moving custom applications to the cloud, we can help you to survey your application portfolio for appropriate candidates. We can show you how to avoid the pitfalls and how to take advantage of the cloud's unique capabilities to reduce costs and improve scalability and performance.

How can you save costs, and improve scalability, availability and performance by leveraging the cloud?

If your application has peak load periods, you can scale resources within minutes, rather than within hours or days, and you only pay for the resources during those peak load periods
You can create on-demand failover environments that can be available within minutes and that you only pay for when in use
You prepare for disasters by failing over to completely discrete availability regions
You can create on-demand performance, model office and QA environments that you only pay for when in use
You save money by outsourcing the administration of hardware and network infrastructure to a company whose economy of scale and focus allows them to aggressively cut costs
You can place applications in data centers throughout the world, reducing user latency and allowing for hot / hot failover scenarios

How do we approach a cloud migration engagement project?

We start by working with you and your team to understand which, if any, of your applications may be candidates for a migration to the cloud
If we find a candidate, we work with you to create a return on investment (ROI) case
If the ROI looks good, then its time to plan out your migration
First, we can help you identify a cloud provider, private or public that is right for your needs
We work with your technical team to understand how your application architecture will translate to the cloud and what changes might be required of your application
We then design and implement a pilot project to prove the functional and non-functional features of your application
This pilot project reduces risk and provides the foundation for production version of the application
During this pilot project, our expertise in cloud infrastructure, quality assurance and performance testing all come into play
Your application is then tuned and tweaked and finally deployed to production
We can tailor a plan to suit your specific needs

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	Moving to the Cloud Have you been sitting on the sidelines, waiting to see how the industry fares with its race into the cloud? If you have, that's understandable: The cloud is a relatively new phenomenon and there are all of those well-publicized concerns about security, availability and performance. However, while you've been waiting, the cloud has been maturing rapidly, and many organizations are finding that, with the proper guidance, at least some of the custom applications in their portfolio are suitable to the cloud and are candidates for dramatic cost savings. That's where we come in. Using our real-life experience in moving custom applications to the cloud, we can help you to survey your application portfolio for appropriate candidates. We can show you how to avoid the pitfalls and how to take advantage of the cloud's unique capabilities to reduce costs and improve scalability and performance. How can you save costs, and improve scalability, availability and performance by leveraging the cloud? If your application has peak load periods, you can scale resources within minutes, rather than within hours or days, and you only pay for the resources during those peak load periods You can create on-demand failover environments that can be available within minutes and that you only pay for when in use You prepare for disasters by failing over to completely discrete availability regions You can create on-demand performance, model office and QA environments that you only pay for when in use You save money by outsourcing the administration of hardware and network infrastructure to a company whose economy of scale and focus allows them to aggressively cut costs You can place applications in data centers throughout the world, reducing user latency and allowing for hot / hot failover scenarios How do we approach a cloud migration engagement project? We start by working with you and your team to understand which, if any, of your applications may be candidates for a migration to the cloud If we find a candidate, we work with you to create a return on investment (ROI) case If the ROI looks good, then its time to plan out your migration First, we can help you identify a cloud provider, private or public that is right for your needs We work with your technical team to understand how your application architecture will translate to the cloud and what changes might be required of your application We then design and implement a pilot project to prove the functional and non-functional features of your application This pilot project reduces risk and provides the foundation for production version of the application During this pilot project, our expertise in cloud infrastructure, quality assurance and performance testing all come into play Your application is then tuned and tweaked and finally deployed to production We can tailor a plan to suit your specific needs Contact us to learn about our real-world experience in moving complex, mission-critical applications to the cloud.

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