Cloud Migration & Modernization
Seamlessly transition your applications and data to the cloud with minimal disruption to business operations through careful planning and execution.
Strategic Migration Approach
Our migration service encompasses comprehensive assessment, planning, and execution phases designed to transition your applications and data to cloud platforms while maintaining business continuity. We analyze your application portfolio to determine appropriate migration strategies for each workload.
The assessment phase includes dependency mapping, performance profiling, and identification of technical constraints or compliance requirements. We classify applications using the 7 R's framework, determining whether to rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain, or relocate each component.
Migration execution follows a phased approach, typically starting with non-critical applications to validate processes and build team confidence. We implement automated migration tools where applicable, supplemented with custom scripts for specialized workloads requiring manual intervention.
Post-migration optimization identifies opportunities for modernization, including containerization, microservices architecture, and adoption of managed cloud services that reduce operational overhead while improving scalability and reliability.
Portfolio Assessment
Comprehensive analysis of applications, dependencies, and migration readiness with strategy recommendations.
Phased Execution
Controlled migration waves with validation gates ensuring business continuity throughout transition.
Modernization
Application refactoring and platform optimization for cloud-native capabilities and efficiency.
Migration Outcomes and Benefits
Organizations completing cloud migrations observe improvements across operational efficiency, infrastructure costs, and application performance. The extent of benefits varies based on migration strategies employed and level of post-migration optimization implemented.
Operational Improvements
Cloud platforms provide capabilities that were complex or costly to implement on-premises. Auto-scaling adjusts resources to match demand patterns, eliminating over-provisioning while ensuring performance during peak periods. Organizations report capacity adjustment times decreasing from days or weeks to minutes.
Managed services reduce operational burden by offloading database maintenance, patching, and backup management to the cloud provider. Teams redirect effort from infrastructure maintenance to application development and business value delivery.
Cost Structure Changes
Migration shifts infrastructure from capital expenditure to operational expenditure model. Organizations eliminate hardware refresh cycles, data center costs, and associated facilities expenses. Cloud resource costs align with actual usage rather than peak capacity planning.
Development and testing environments can be provisioned on-demand and decommissioned when not needed, reducing costs for non-production workloads by 60-70%. Reserved instances and savings plans provide discounts for predictable baseline workloads.
Recent Migration Results (August - October 2025)
- Manufacturing company migrated 85 applications to AWS, reducing data center footprint by 60% and infrastructure costs by ¥22M annually
- Retail organization improved deployment frequency from monthly to daily releases after migrating to Azure with containerized architecture
- Financial services firm achieved compliance certification within 6 months of migration through automated security controls
- Media company expanded to three new geographic markets within 8 weeks using multi-region cloud deployment
Migration Tools and Methodologies
We utilize cloud-native migration tools and established methodologies to ensure efficient, reliable transitions with comprehensive validation at each stage.
Migration Tools
AWS Migration Hub
- Application Discovery Service
- Server Migration Service
- Database Migration Service
- DataSync for data transfer
- Snow family for large datasets
Azure Migrate
- Azure Migrate appliance
- Server Assessment tool
- Database Migration Service
- Data Box for offline transfer
- App Service Migration Assistant
Google Cloud
- Migrate for Compute Engine
- Database Migration Service
- Transfer Appliance
- Storage Transfer Service
- Anthos for hybrid workloads
Assessment Tools
- Discovery tools for inventory and dependency mapping
- Performance profiling and capacity analysis
- Cost calculators for TCO comparison
- Compatibility checkers for platform readiness
Validation Framework
- Automated testing for functional verification
- Performance testing against baseline metrics
- Data integrity validation and reconciliation
- Security scanning and compliance verification
Risk Management and Safety Protocols
Migration projects incorporate multiple safety mechanisms to protect business operations and enable rapid rollback if issues arise during cutover periods.
Pre-Migration Safeguards
- Complete backup verification before migration windows, with tested restore procedures documented
- Pilot migrations on non-critical applications to validate processes and timing estimates
- Communication plans ensuring stakeholders understand migration schedule and expected impacts
- Runbooks documenting step-by-step procedures with decision points and escalation paths
Cutover Management
- Parallel operation periods where both environments run simultaneously for comparison
- Traffic splitting enables gradual transition with quick reversion if anomalies detected
- Real-time monitoring during cutover windows with automated alerts for threshold violations
- Rollback procedures ready for immediate execution if validation criteria not met
Post-Migration Stabilization
Following cutover completion, we maintain heightened monitoring for 48-72 hours to quickly identify and address any issues that emerge under production load. Support teams remain on elevated readiness during this stabilization period.
Performance baselines established during pre-migration assessment serve as comparison points for post-migration validation. We document any deviations and implement optimization measures to achieve or exceed baseline performance levels. Source environment resources remain available for defined retention period as additional safety measure.
Suitable For
Data Center Exit
Organizations ending data center leases or reducing physical infrastructure footprint through complete or partial cloud migration.
Legacy Modernization
Companies with aging infrastructure or end-of-life systems requiring platform updates and architectural improvements.
Growth Scaling
Organizations experiencing growth that exceeds on-premises capacity, requiring elastic infrastructure to support expansion.
Operational Efficiency
Businesses seeking to reduce operational overhead through managed services and automated infrastructure management.
Geographic Expansion
Companies entering new markets requiring infrastructure presence in additional regions without building data centers.
Compliance Requirements
Organizations needing to meet regulatory standards that are more easily achieved through cloud security controls.
Progress Tracking and Reporting
Migration projects include structured reporting and progress tracking mechanisms that provide visibility to stakeholders throughout the engagement.
Migration Dashboards
Real-time dashboards track application migration status, resource provisioning progress, and validation completion across the portfolio. Status indicators show applications in planning, execution, validation, or completed states with associated timelines.
- Application migration wave status
- Resource provisioning completion
- Validation and testing progress
- Timeline adherence and milestone tracking
Performance Metrics
Post-migration performance metrics compare cloud environment operation against pre-migration baselines. These measurements validate that applications meet or exceed previous performance levels while identifying optimization opportunities.
- Response time comparisons
- Throughput and capacity metrics
- Error rates and availability
- Resource utilization efficiency
Financial Tracking
Cost tracking compares actual cloud spending against projected estimates from the assessment phase. This visibility enables early identification of cost overruns and implementation of optimization measures. Reporting shows costs by application, environment, and resource type.
- Budget vs. actual spending
- Cost per application tracking
- Optimization recommendations
- TCO comparison reports
Stakeholder Communication
Regular status meetings and written reports keep leadership and technical teams informed of migration progress, risks, and decisions requiring input. Communication frequency adjusts to project phase, with more frequent updates during active migration windows. Final migration report documents completed activities, lessons learned, and recommendations for ongoing optimization.
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