The cloud allows you to scale to a level of computing, networking and storage that you could not otherwise achieve. It enables continuous innovation and ease of collaboration. But to achieve these benefits, it’s important to design your cloud solution with high availability, security and governance. In this blog, we explain how to achieve this with Google Cloud.
While there may be specific circumstances in which it is advisable to opt for a hybrid cloud strategy, expert advice is increasingly focused on moving to public cloud. There are several reasons for pursuing a public cloud strategy including:
At SoftwareOne, we follow a well-practiced step-by-step process to ensure all the benefits and requirements of a Google Cloud project are met.
We start by understanding what a customer's business outcomes are and then establish the scope of the IT project to achieve these outcomes. We analyse the client's services and/or applications, evaluating their cloud maturity and various scenarios available to them. In this phase we carry out data collection, we interview the personnel involved (both IT and business), and then identify and group the infrastructures by dependencies.
Here we define the design and architecture model, following the standard and proven Google Cloud methodology. We determine what needs to move and how this can be moved. This could include computing, networking, storage, databases, serverless scenarios or containers. We prepare the landing zone, clarifying the aspects of identity management, networks, security and billing. And we prepare for the kickoff, specifying tasks and workflows.
We subdivide the project into the phases of adoption, migration, transformation and obtaining results. The plan designed in the previous phases is executed, always iteratively, and decisions and improvements are made based on the results of the ongoing analysis.
Here we monitor and operate the migrated services and infrastructures, providing centralised management. We give advice on continuous improvement, through the study of new services and/or products, as well as advice for cost optimisation and control of resources and billing.
Examples of projects we have done with customers are:
For each scenario we apply a decision model that, after discovery and planning, consists of deciding whether to migrate (rehost or replatform) or change (refactor or rebuild). Then we enter a continuous cycle of improvement and optimisation.
To undertake each project with customers, we have total flexibility to adapt to their needs. We provide turnkey projects, where scope, time and price are agreed up front; an agile model with an agreed bag of hours for development and maintenance; a baseline approach in which we provide skilled resources, consulting or training; or a combination of any of these depending on requirements.
Cloud can seem daunting, but we make it simple. Just choose your first workload and we will help you upload it to Google Cloud. We will analyse it and offer the best possible approach to modernise it, adopting a cloud native model, relying on serverless services, containerisation services such as Docker or Kubernetes, or other PaaS, SaaS or IaaS services offered by Google.
We know that the support of a partner often becomes a necessity. SoftwareOne has helped thousands of customers in their cloud transformations and can help you too.
Get cloud guidance from the pros. Contact us today to schedule a free 30-minute consultation with one of our cloud experts.
Get cloud guidance from the pros. Contact us today to schedule a free 30-minute consultation with one of our cloud experts.
