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Migrate to the Cloud with Confidence

At QBurst, we focus on identifying business and IT drivers, assessing the existing setup, and defining a cloud migration roadmap that will also accommodate future business needs. We follow an iterative approach to migration that ensures minimum disruption to your operations. First in our cloud migration service is the migration consulting and discovery phase.

Cloud Migration Consulting and Strategy

As your cloud migration service provider, we help you answer pertinent questions and effect a successful transition to the cloud. Our cloud consultants will work with you to identify:

  • What to migratePrioritize the applications, processes, and infrastructure to be migrated.
  • How to migrateFormulate a migration strategy that aligns with needs and addresses potential risks.
  • Where to migrateChoose a reliable platform—private, public, or hybrid—as appropriate for the business.
Strategy

Cloud Migration Strategies

We focus on identifying business and IT drivers, assessing the existing setup, and defining a cloud roadmap that will also accommodate future business needs. A planned iterative approach ensures minimum disruption to your business operations.

Explore Cloud Migration Strategies

Stages in Cloud Migration

Discovery Decision Transition Cloud

Inventory of existing infrastructure

Assess dependencies and risks

Prioritize Applications

Choose a cloud deployment model and provider

Private vs Public vs Hybrid

Single vs Multi-cloud

Determine the migration path

Rehost (Lift and shift using migration tools)

Refactor (Lift, tinker, and migrate using containers)

Replace (Set up SaaS version)

Rebuild (Redesign and build from scratch)

Retain (Take no action)

Migrate as small workloads

Test and deploy

Monitor log and performance

Assimilate learnings and apply to next migration

Operate the cloud environment with continuous monitoring (24/7 support).

Make periodic enhancements to take advantage of new functionalities introduced by the cloud provider.

Stages in Cloud Migration

Discovery

Inventory of existing infrastructure

Assess dependencies and risks

Prioritize Applications

Decision

Choose a cloud deployment model and provider

Private vs Public vs Hybrid

Single vs Multi-cloud

Determine the migration path

Rehost (Lift and shift using migration tools)

Refactor (Lift, tinker, and migrate using containers)

Replace (Set up SaaS version)

Rebuild (Redesign and build from scratch)

Retain (Take no action)

Transition

Migrate as small workloads

Test and deploy

Monitor log and performance

Assimilate learnings and apply to next migration

Cloud

Operate the cloud environment with continuous monitoring (24/7 support).

Make periodic enhancements to take advantage of new functionalities introduced by the cloud provider.

Executing the Migration

During cloud migration, applications need to be ported and tested in a streamlined manner. We set up beta environments and fine-tune applications using test data. Once the new cloud environment is ready, production data is moved to the cloud.

Production switchover can be done either all at once or in phases. We can move the entire application to the cloud and verify it works there while consumers continue to access the on-premises database. With one-way synchronization to the cloud-based database, we just need to switch the traffic from on-premises stack to the cloud stack when it is ready.

A phased approach is when we move consumers of the data in batches with bi-directional syncing between on-premise and cloud databases. Cloud and on-premises environments operate in parallel, allowing data, applications, and users to move in phases without disrupting normal operations. Post migration of each phase, we test, verify, and move the next batch. Once all the customers are moved to the cloud-based application, we remove the on-premises version.

Post migration and verification, we start the monitor-optimize cycle. We move the application to its steady state where our managed services practice can run and maintain it. Our runbooks will make sure everyone has the information necessary to keep your apps running and supported through the rest of their lifecycle. Learnings from the initial migration are used to improve and tweak the migration plan of the next set of applications or services.

Cloud Migration Steps Adopted by QBurst Team

Cloud Readiness Assessment
Beta Environment Setup
Migration Strategy
Migration
Continuous Monitoring
Cloud Readiness Assessment

Cloud Readiness Assessment

  • Prepare an inventory of the existing infrastructure
  • Assess the dependencies and risks involved
  • Identify the most suited cloud service provider
  • Suggest suitable cloud tools to replace/improve the existing environment
  • Plan and prepare final architecture diagram with DR and fault-tolerance options
  • Estimate the time and cost involved
Beta Environment Setup

Beta Environment Setup

  • Set up a beta environment of the existing environment
  • Test/fine tune application using test data and test database
  • Test scalability after loading production equivalent test data
Migration Strategy

Migration Strategy

  • Plan phased migration of the application and database
  • Estimate the required migration time and notify downtime if necessary
Migration

Migration

  • Build a new automated/non-automated production environment
  • Move production data and set up storage, DR, and fault tolerance
  • Update DNS records and other configurations
Continuous Monitoring

Continuous Monitoring

  • Set up monitoring tools
  • Keep watching logs, performance, response time, and load

Cloud Migration Steps Adopted by QBurst Team

Cloud Readiness Assessment

Prepare an inventory of the existing infrastructure

Assess the dependencies and risks involved

Identify the most suited cloud service provider

Suggest suitable cloud tools to replace/improve the existing environment

Plan and prepare final architecture diagram with DR and fault-tolerance options

Estimate the time and cost involved

Beta Environment Setup

Set up a beta environment of the existing environment

Test/fine-tune application using test data and test database

Test scalability after loading production equivalent test data

Migration Strategy

Plan phased migration of the application and database

Estimate the required migration time and notify downtime if necessary

Migration

Build a new automated/non-automated production environment

Move production data and set up storage, DR, and fault tolerance

Update DNS records and other configurations

Enable Monitoring

Set up monitoring tools

Keep watching logs, performance, response time, and load

I take this opportunity to thank QBurst team for the efficient manner in which the recent migration of our site was organized.

Capt. Bharat Verma

Capt. Bharat Verma

Chief Editor
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