Cloud Migration Solutions Consulting Services

Cloud migration involves relocating applications, data, and workloads from one setting to another—whether transitioning from on-premise infrastructure to a cloud platform or switching between different providers. This is a defined project with specific deadlines and cutover milestones, rather than a simple transactional purchase completed upon signing.

Scope of Services

• Inventory and Suitability Assessment: Evaluating existing assets, understanding their interdependencies, and determining which components are suitable for a direct lift-and-shift approach and which require re-architecting for the new environment.
• Workload Migration: Executing the transfer of applications and data, including a validated fallback strategy in case the migration encounters issues.
• Strategic Re-architecture: Addressing known vulnerabilities and inefficiencies during the migration process, effectively resolving legacy issues in a single step rather than perpetuating them.
• Cutover Execution: Managing the final transition, implementing fallback procedures, and verifying the stability of the new environment before decommissioning the old one.

Typical Pitfalls

• Perpetuating Existing Issues: Moving a slow, costly, or fragile system to the cloud often results in those same performance and cost challenges persisting. The migration changes the hosting location, not the underlying performance characteristics.
• Undetected Dependencies: Systems that rely on specific local paths or outdated database versions may fail unexpectedly after the initial go-live, revealing hidden integration issues only after the move is complete.
• Extended Parallel Costs: Maintaining both old and new environments simultaneously during the transition incurs significant expenses. Indefinite parallel operations turn into a recurring financial burden.

Key Pre-Migration Decisions

• Scope and Sequence: Defining the migration order of workloads, identifying those that can wait, and establishing clear exit criteria for each stage.
• Cost Analysis: Modeling the ongoing monthly costs of the new environment, including factors like egress fees and idle capacity, rather than focusing solely on initial launch expenses.
• Rollback Strategy: Determining what state data will be preserved, for how long, and defining the specific triggers that necessitate a return to the legacy environment.

How NobleConsul Can Assist

As part of its consulting capabilities, NobleConsul can provide support for assessing the suitability of the current environment, planning the optimal sequencing of workload migrations, and designing robust cutover and rollback strategies.