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Cloud Migration Services and Solutions
Modernize your software with going cloud
Why is cloud migration important?
Cloud migration is the process of moving your software solution and digital assets to the cloud infrastructure.
This is an important step towards creating a service oriented, robust and scalable business infrastructure allowing organizations across the globe minimize the efforts to support complex infrastructure and focus on the business processes and goals.
Our Approach to Cloud Migration
Discovery phase
Design phase
Migration
Going live
Ongoing support
Goal
Determine the migration approach, strategy and KPIs
Key tasks
- Analyze legacy environment, software and digital assets
- Understand the pain points
- Determine success drivers, formulate KPIs
Length
1 month (may vary depending on the scope and complexity)
Deliverables
Migration strategy, preliminary tools and tech stack identification
Goal
- To identify target state of the solution
- To create a detailed migration plan
Key tasks
- Identify target architecture
- Select cloud vendor (tips on how to select the best cloud vendor)
- Analyze legacy code for compatibility with the target architecture and plan refactoring / activities, redesign legacy software
- Analyze data model and design potential transformations
- Detailed implementation backlog (software, infrastructure, data transformation, ETL)
Length
1-3 months
Deliverables
- Solution architecture
- Software gaps
- Data transformation approach
- Implementation backlog
Goal
Prepare software, infrastructure and data for migration
Length
2-6 months
Deliverables
- Cloud infrastructure setup
- New version of software to be migrated
- ETL tools
- Cutover plan
- Rollback strategy and tools
Goal
Production migration with minimal downtime
Length
1 month
Deliverables
Live solution after migration
Goal
Minimize risks and costs of the migrated solution
Deliverables
Support tickets, software fixes and patches, software updates
Discovery phase
Goal
Determine the migration approach, strategy and KPIs
Key tasks
- Analyze legacy environment, software and digital assets
- Understand the pain points
- Determine success drivers, formulate KPIs
Length
1 month (may vary depending on the scope and complexity)
Deliverables
Migration strategy, preliminary tools and tech stack identification
Design phase
Goal
- To identify target state of the solution
- To create a detailed migration plan
Key tasks
- Identify target architecture
- Select cloud vendor (tips on how to select the best cloud vendor)
- Analyze legacy code for compatibility with the target architecture and plan refactoring / activities, redesign legacy software
- Analyze data model and design potential transformations
- Detailed implementation backlog (software, infrastructure, data transformation, ETL)
Length
1-3 months
Deliverables
- Solution architecture
- Software gaps
- Data transformation approach
- Implementation backlog
Migration
Goal
Prepare software, infrastructure and data for migration
Length
2-6 months
Deliverables
- Cloud infrastructure setup
- New version of software to be migrated
- ETL tools
- Cutover plan
- Rollback strategy and tools
Going live
Goal
Production migration with minimal downtime
Length
1 month
Deliverables
Live solution after migration
Ongoing support
Goal
Minimize risks and costs of the migrated solution
Deliverables
Support tickets, software fixes and patches, software updates
Our Cloud Migration Services
Cloud migration assessment and planning
We help customers analyse legacy environment and processes, define goals, KPIs and come up with the best strategy including: target cloud platform, ETL tools, migration approach and high-level migration plan
Cloud migration services
Full scale migration project from analysing existing legacy solutions, identifying tools, platforms, plans to implementing the migration strategy and post Go-live support.
Quality assurance of a migration project
When you are not happy with the existing supplier or project, your KPIs have not achieved or you need a 3d party to assess risks and come up with a mitigation plan, we’ll pull our best architects and Cloud experts to support ensure your successful Cloud migration.
Cloud infrastructure management and automation
We help clients set up and tune Cloud application management tools and technologies, by AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and other vendors. By leveraging our proprietary technologies (SaM Solutions Rolling Stack) you can avoid a vendor lock and simplify Development and Operations of your Cloud software.
Cloud Consulting Services
Get a better understanding of your cloud migration options based on the expert opinion of our cloud architects and experienced lead engineers. Make sure you start executing on your cloud migration plan with a clear roadmap for what lies ahead.
Cloud Engineering Services
Take advantage of our multi-year experience working with the most popular cloud platforms and building scalable cloud applications. Leverage a multitude of existing services from leading cloud service providers to start saving from the get-go.
Cloud Optimization Services
Let SaM Solutions experts take a deep dive into your current cloud infrastructure and produce a detailed, step-by-step plan for streamlining storage and compute resource consumption. Pay exactly for what you use and not a dollar more.
AWS Cloud Services
Utilize the immense potential of AWS cloud services to the fullest with the help of our cloud architects and experienced development leads. Reduce the time to market by invoking the most powerful platform offerings and putting them to the best use possible.
Azure Cloud Services
Take the fast lane to your business goals using the incredible potential of Microsoft Azure services ranging from the most basic cloud deployments to ultra-complex systems relying on advanced AI tech and industry-specific solutions. Our engineers will be your guides through the maze of Azure services and will suggest the best strategy for achieving your goals.
Here's What Our Clients Say
Michael Hofer, CEO of 1stQuad, talks about the long-term partnership with SaM Solutions
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SaM Solutions is a great partner to Definition 6. We have been impressed by the caliber and capability of their personnel. They have helped us to grow our business and meet the needs and demands of our customers.
Paul Hernacki, Chief Technology Officer
Definition 6
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Our experience with SaM Solutions has been very productive. We have collaborated with their team previously and learned that they deliver great value to our clients. That is why when choosing a contractor for this project, we immediately turned to SaM Solutions, as we knew we could rely on their proficiency and experience.
Ara Aguzumtsyan, CIS Service and Support Director
SAP
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Ready to Migrate to Cloud?
talk to an expert4 Methods for effective cloud migration process
Moving the entire legacy app to the cloud infrastructure
Refactoring the legacy code to be cloud compliant and robust
Building a new cloud native application and migration of data and processes
Re-platforming or moving from one cloud platform to another
Cloud Migration Plan
Regardless of the approach a company uses, the migration plan would consist of the same 7 steps
1
Analyze/plan
Step includes creation of the backlog for migration project, describing tasks, their interdependencies, providing estimates and planning for the big picture implementation.
2
Select
Step includes selection of the tasks for the release candidate, assigning them to the teams.
3
Prepare
The team analyzes the tasks, designs the resulting feature/process, implements needed changes and applies them to the dev environment.
4
Migrate
Code and data migration is tested in Quality Assurance environment, cutover plan is created for the release.
5
Test/Verify
User Acceptance Testing is performed in Production-like environment using production or masked production data. Regression testing is performed to assure that the target solution would not be broken by the releasing features.
6
Operations and optimization
Ongoing support of your software in the cloud requires regular checks, system logs, cloud settings, backup, security, and data archiving.
7
Continuous Improvement
Includes all patches and fixes to the migration tools and code, as well as new automation scripts, patterns, and approaches.
Cloud Migration Checklist
Use our checklist to successfully manage your cloud migration processes
1. Discovery phase
0/6
2. Design phase
0/5
3. Migration phase
0/4
4. Go-Live phase
0/5
Platforms for Cloud Migration
Cloud Migration Tools
AWS
- Migration Hub
- Developer tools
- Cloud Watch
- Containers
Azure / Azure Goverment
- Migrate
- Azure Monitor/Application Insights
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Google Cloud Platform
- Google Operations
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Google Cloud Run
- Google Application Migration etc
SaM Solutions proprietary Cloud Development and Operations Management solution – Rollingstack.
Success Stories
Contracting Models
Time & Material
Client is billed for hours incurred by a developer / a team
Flexible approach allows for more agile changes in the project
Needs more discipline and project management skills to drive agile project
Less visibility over the final budget
Fixed price (FP)
Client is billed based on an estimate produced before starting the project, phase
More transparency on the buget and main milestones beforehands
A lot of upfront efforts need to be taken by both customer and contractor to avoid misleading estimates based on multiple assumtions.
Risk reserve is typically higher as there are still multiple assumptions in the estimates.
Mixed model
Client pays a premium for fast delivery, budget economy or financial results of the implemented project
You can leverage multiple benefits of the mixed approach
You can leverage multiple benefits of the mixed approach trying to avoid disadvantages
Let’s Talk
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FAQ
Why cloud migration is important?
Cloud migration helps remove architectural bottlenecks in legacy on-prem applications and dramatically improve service scalability, expandability, performance, and TCO. Switching to a microservice-based architecture enables businesses to ensure maximum service uptime, automate application deployment and updates, and streamline running costs thanks to dynamic storage and compute resource allocation.
What is cloud migration strategy?
A cloud migration strategy is a high-level roadmap for an organization preparing to move existing on-prem or co-located workloads along with their data into the cloud. The choice of a particular strategy depends primarily on the existing infrastructure, applications to be moved, timelines, and long-term plans in relation to workload cloudification.
What are the benefits of cloud migration?
The typical benefits attributed to cloud migration include the increased flexibility of resource management, lower TCO, dramatically faster deployment of app updates and new apps, ease of integration with external services, fully automated resource allocation, and much more. It also eliminates the hassle and costs of running your own data center or renting physical servers to host your diverse application suite.
What are the cloud migration types?
There are multiple types of cloud migration as defined by different experts and companies. However, some of the most commoplace terms are Lift and Shift, Shift to SaaS, Application Refactoring, and Replatforming. These approaches differ by the degree of software modifications and the amount of efforts that an organization must invest in the process to achieve its goals.
What are cloud migration services?
Cloud migration services may include multiple activities ranging from an in-depth audit of the existing infrastructure, data sources, and business workflows, to complex ETL operations, recreation of workflows in the cloud, development of microservices and APIs for software integrations, as well as the configuration of the cloud infrastructure for optimal operation.
