Solution Overview
Cloud Migration Services is a group of services designed to migrate workloads to Azure to help customers achieve their business goals, whether those include scaling their businesses, optimizing operations, controlling costs, protecting against security threats, or supporting innovation.
Solution deliverables
Our team will work with you to select the right combination of services to suit your Azure needs.
Plan
Workload Optimization - Our team deploys non-intrusive data collection tools to identify rightsizing opportunities in the cloud environment, defining and implementing change management procedures to minimize downtime before rightsizing workloads. Finally, the cloud environment is reassessed to ensure workloads are high-performing and cost-efficient.
Azure Readiness Assessment - A fully funded service that offers a cost-effective business case for the migration or modernization of workloads to Azure.
Licensing Optimization Assessment - An assessment that compares entitlement, deployed and consumed licensing information giving actionable insights into costs, procurement options, and compliance gaps. Specific to Microsoft licenses.
Application Rationalization - We assess applications, data, and infrastructure to identify a list of workloads to be migrated to Azure based on the customer’s business, technical, and operational priorities. The list of target workloads is analyzed to choose the most effective migration service(s) in the build and migrate module.
Migration Planning - Our experts identify resource requirements (CPU, memory, storage) and application and infrastructure dependencies. We also prioritize the list of workloads to be migrated based on business impact, cost of delay, complexity, and development time to define the migration timeframe and create a journey roadmap.
Build and Migrate
Migration Landing Zone - We deploy governance, security, operations, and identity and access management policies to build a pre-configured cloud environment with a secure and standardized process for migrating workloads to the cloud. We also offer Advanced Landing Zone professional services that help customers build and deploy highly personalized landing zones to support complex business and technical needs.
Lift and Shift Migration - We migrate existing applications from the data center directly to the cloud with minimal to no changes to the architecture or functionality of the application. Using data-driven migration techniques and automated tools, our engineers then quickly migrate a large number of applications to the cloud. The migration will be organized into multiple 2-week phases, with most phases focused on migrating a set of 25-50 applications.
VMware Cloud Services - On-premises VMware-based workloads are extended to the Azure VMware Solution, deploying a hybrid cloud environment where applications and data can be easily accessed and managed across both data center infrastructure and cloud resources.
Application Modernization - Rebuilding specific components of the application (refactoring) or the entire application architecture (re-architecture) allows us to implement advanced cloud technologies such as serverless computing, containerization, and microservices.
Operate phase
Re-platforming - We retool and migrate on-premises applications to the cloud without making significant architectural changes for an incremental approach to application modernization.The application is modified to benefit from automation features and cloud-native services such as SQL Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Why Softchoice?
Comprehensive and customized experience - Our end-to-end services cover every aspect of cloud migration, from initial planning and implementation to post-migration optimizations, customized to your organization's requirements.
Expertise - our certified and experienced team of engineers and architects is structured to move fast and deliver results.
Industry-leading Microsoft partnership - our deep business and technical expertise with Microsoft and VMware allow our customers to take advantage of exclusive pricing benefits and the latest technologies.
Solution outcomes
- Grow value faster with expert-built Azure architecture that solves business challenges and enhances user experiences.
- Avoid common missteps with specialized guidance informed by insights from hundreds of cloud migrations.
- Minimize business disruptions with built-in security, compliance, and governance controls that ensure a consistently secure and stable cloud environment.
- Achieve predictable results with a personalized migration process with data-driven insights and well-architected frameworks from Microsoft