Cloud Migration Solutions Consulting Services

Cloud migration involves transitioning applications, data, and workloads from one environment to another, such as moving from on-premise servers to a cloud platform or switching between different providers. This is a structured project with specific timelines and cutover milestones, rather than a simple purchase completed upon signing a contract.

Scope of services

• Inventory and suitability analysis: Assessing existing assets, their interdependencies, and determining which components can be lifted directly versus those requiring rework for the new environment.
• Workload migration: Executing the transfer of applications and data, ensuring a tested rollback path is available if the migration encounters issues.
• Strategic re-architecture: Addressing known technical weaknesses during the migration to improve stability, rather than perpetuating inefficiencies in the new environment.
• Cutover management: Overseeing the final switch, implementing fallback procedures, and verifying the stability of the new environment before decommissioning the old one.

Typical pitfalls

• Perpetuating existing issues: Migrating a slow, costly, or fragile system without optimization results in the same performance problems in the cloud. The location changes, but the underlying inefficiencies remain.
• Undetected dependencies: Critical jobs relying on local paths or legacy database versions may fail after initial success, surfacing only in subsequent stages.
• Extended dual-running costs: Maintaining both environments in parallel during transition incurs significant expenses. An unstructured migration can lead to ongoing, unnecessary costs.

Key decisions required upfront

• Scope and sequencing: Defining which workloads are migrated first, which are deferred, and establishing clear exit criteria for each phase.
• Cost modeling: Understanding the long-term monthly cost profile, including egress fees and idle capacity, beyond initial launch estimates.
• Rollback strategy: Determining what state data is preserved, for how long, and the specific triggers that necessitate a return to the previous environment.

How NobleConsul supports this process

Where applicable, NobleConsul offers consulting support for assessing the suitability of the current environment, planning the sequence of workload migrations, and designing robust cutover and rollback strategies.