Cloud Migration Services

Previously large organizations had an IT department managing the organization’s data center(s). The new norm is for organizations to focus on their data rather than on IT.

And as part of their digital transformation journey, organizations increasingly seek to migrate from various sourcing or in-house operational models to the consumption of services that others provide.

With our advisory consultancy services we help clients plan and organize transitions between various forms of hosting and sourcing IT service delivery.

FutureNow’s Cloud Migration Services are designed to help you migrate your infrastructure, applications and business processes to the cloud. We utilize a nearly failsafe process that provides you the ability to test your new cloud infrastructure and applications before going live.

Our Cloud Migration Services identify areas of risk and opportunities for improving the performance and availability of critical business functions. You will experience a near zero down time during migration without any disruption or performance impact.

The Cloud Migration Process

FutureNow will capture your workloads and dependencies, design the most appropriate target cloud infrastructure, seamlessly migrate your applications, and perform testing and verification as you move.

While each engagement is customized to fit your business needs, a typical Cloud Migration process follows the steps listed below.

• Gather requirements through assessment offering
• Identify migration components and build a migration roadmap
• Prioritize components to be migrated
• Create timeline
• Apply industry best practices and leverage industry leading tools and skill sets
• Use the most effective cost optimization option
• Gather scalability and elasticity requirements as well as gather security and data protection requirements
• Design and create current state and future state architecture diagrams as well as conceptual architectural diagrams
• Apply application-specific cloud design patterns
• Include on-premises, hybrid and cloud components
• Assist with vendor selection
• Include computational, storage, backup and security services
• Define administration and management roles
• Select VPN, firewall, antivirus, malware and vulnerability check tools
• Develop and build a Base Cloud Infrastructure (BCI)
• Deploy proof of concept workloads as representative use cases
• Validate applications on the BCI
• Map security, compliance and operational approaches against new controls
• Position the organization to adopt cloud resources at scale
• Deploy security tools and run vulnerability checks

There are many advantages to the cloud, but it is not always easy getting there. You need to select the right cloud service provider for your needs, whether it be a small DevOps environment, specific applications, platforms such as Office365, or your enterprise systems.

FutureNow has experience working with multiple cloud service providers and clients of all sizes to help develop the right cloud strategy for your business, performance, security and budget needs.

We also have the experienced resources, tools and relationships to plan and execute your migration to the cloud, including the change management with your users, customers and partners. And, after you get to the cloud, FutureNow can monitor, manage, and maintain your cloud infrastructure to continue meeting your needs as your business grows and your needs change over time.