Cloud Deployment, Migration, and Modernization

ISM’s Cloud Deployment, Migration and Modernization services (part of our Center of Excellence (CoE) competencies) are targeted to help our clients achieve optimized transformations of their IT environments which directly contributes to helping them execute and achieve their business transformation strategies. Our cloud competencies are well structured and can be aligned to your cloud smart strategy whereby we can provide the required cloud professional services for your end-to-end cloud professional services.

• Supported Deployment, Migration and Modernization Use Cases
  • Greenfield Azure Cloud deployments
  • Hybrid cloud to extend existing IT infrastructure
  • Low Code/No Code development environments
  • IT Security posture improvements
• Client Business Challenges
  • Need help implementing your cloud and technology strategy.
  • Require a scalable, sustainable, and integrated technology to support your enterprise IT landscape, including integrated toolsets to support current and future initiatives.
  • Require orchestration solutions across multiple technologies and hybrid environments.
  • Need to be able to respond quickly, securely, and reliably to fluctuating demands on your IT capacity.
  • Want a trusted and proven professional services provider to help your business adopt a cloud environment and support digital transformation within your organization.
• Alignment
  • End-to-end migration services spanning the entire project lifecycle including detailed planning and implementation of migration requirements for the designated workloads.
  • Testing plans to validate implemented designs.
  • Bring industry experience to complement your transition and transformation activities.
  • Provide governance and assist you with your cloud structure.
• Deployment
  • Facilitate working sessions with familiarized current state support teams, using tools and approaches for setup of a secure Azure Landing Zone.
  • Azure Landing Zone design and implementation with applicable alignment of zero-trust security models.
  • Preparation of reusable configuration templates for the Azure Landing Zone and deployments within the Azure environment.
  • Expansions of the initial landing zone staged over Minimum Viable Product (MVP) implementations.
  • Implementation of security practices and validation of administrative access/permissions verified prior to landing zone enablement.
• Migration
  • Initial analysis to define ROI to support migration decision-making.
  • Tools such as Azure Migrate and stakeholder interviews are used to discover and validate key migration scenarios.
  • Leverage five Rs of rationalization: Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, Replace/Retire
  • We leverage a structured and gated migration approach with feedback loops to ensure the analysis/planning, strategies, and communication processes are validated.
  • Developed wave plans are executed and evaluated with retrospectives which allows our teams to deploy a wave independently depending on factors such as complexities or dependencies on ancillary services.
• Modernization
  • Assess additional operational optimizations which may include cost optimization and application rationalization to reduce operational sprawl.
  • Explore automation optimizations to modernize applications for auto-scaling capabilities.
• ISM Value Proposition
  • Our method is aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework to deliver repeatable, predictable results and to scale up and down based on client baseline volumes and complexity.
  • Our Center of Excellence (CoE) competencies are established with qualified cloud migration factory capabilities and can provide end-to-end migration services.
  • The ISM CoE approach to cloud migration leverages the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to promote alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams.
  • We have deep pools of resources with demonstrated skills, experience, and qualifications in migration of workloads to commercially available public or private cloud environments.
  • We have experience in a large-scale workload migration to cloud including application workload assessment, migration, and transformation.
  • Our Cloud Acceleration Team leverages an Agile delivery approach to partner with clients for solution delivery.
  • ISM offers flexible, modular services to allow our customers to create solution bundles that are tailored to support their desired business outcomes.

Terms, conditions, and pricing are custom to each engagement. Please contact us to discuss a solution to meet your business needs. Offer availability may be limited in some countries.