Alcor’s cloud migration services are designed to help clients make the transition from their existing infrastructure to the cloud platform in a disciplined and organized way. We leverage a structured methodology and industry standard tools to facilitate a rapid migration to the cloud environment while minimizing the transition risks.
Cloud Migration Services
Key components of our enterprise cloud application migration services include:
Discovery Phase
In this phase primary focus is on making an inventory of existing applications, identify the key stakeholders, key users and how they use the applications, understand the application profile, age & business criticality. We also try and capture the meta data during this phase
Assessment Phase
In this phase we leverage our migration framework to determine path and destination for each application. Key considerations include:
- Lift & shift
- Remediate
- Replatform
- Decommission or retire
Application Disposition
- IAAS
- PAAS
- Private/Public/Hybrid cloud
- Target cloud vendor platform
Determine Cloud Deployment Service
Migration Planning
Build road-map based on initial assessment done in the discovery phase.
- Prioritize Migration effort
- Estimate effort
- Update business case
- Engage in Pilots to validate model
- Build future state model
Migration & Testing Phase
- Remediate or re-platform applications
- Document code changes and configurations
- Migrate databases, interfaces and dependent applications
- Performance & scalability testing in preproduction environment
- Validate & accept
Deploy in Production
- Transition to support
- Application Performance Management
- Post migration reviews
- Document
- Update service catalogs