Promises of the Cloud
Companies on a digital journey often see the need to modernise their infrastructure, and cloud migration is likely to go hand in hand.
The promises of the cloud include aspects like:
- Improved Time to market, Flexibility, Innovation and Sustainability
- Reduced Cost
- Increased Security, Scalability and Reliability
- And Netlight has a long history of successfully helping our clients realize these promises.
Netlight can help businesses with everything from Strategy to Implementation
- Strategy: The hosting strategy defines the guiding principles for how the infrastructure should be constructed to support the business goals and what services should be used to reach those goals. The strategy also considers important factors such as cost, security, and maintainability.
- Transformation: Move and transform functionality and services from current state to selected platform requires a plan for how to get there in the most optimal way while considering risk, cost, and time-to-market. Adoption or as is migrations are different paths forwards that each organisations need to evaluate.
- Governance: Governance is a set of mechanisms and processes to maintain control over applications and resources in a hosting environment. It involves setting strategic priorities and ensuring compliance with company policies and regulatory obligations.
- Sustainability: A sustainable hosting environment is generating a low carbon footprint and environmental impact while still supporting the digital transformation of organizations. The sustainability of the infrastructure is connected to multiple factors such as amount the resources used, the energy required for those services, the energy mix of the electric grid serving the hosting datacenters etc.
- Solution Architecture: The solution architecture of the infrastructure and the hosted applications needs to be implemented using recommended best practices and design patterns that supports the applications to be operated according to modern standards that's secure, efficient, resilient, high-performing, and cost-effective.
- Implementation: The migration implementation should be aligned to the specific strategy and transformation plan and can be both lift-and-shift and cloud native adoptions and will be tailored to the specific environment. Netlight can support businesses no matter from which phase they start off from.
Different phases of Cloud Migration
Netlight’s Cloud Migration services consists of four key phases, which are in line with Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF):
- Envision: Set vision and define the business case for cloud hosting and how to measure success
- Plan: Defines how to reach the set goals and assess that the plan will meet constraints and regulations
- Adopt: Implementation of solution into configured landing zone
- Evolve: Continues development of governance and automation to reach improve operational excellence
Cloud Adoption Strategy
Netlight’s Cloud Adoption Strategy consists of four components:
- Drivers and motivation for going to the cloud
- An assessment of the current IT portfolio
- Careful consideration of regulatory, legal, organizational and business constraints and
- A plan for the organizational setup.
Execution of this cloud adoption strategy means to have:
- Clarity on how to migrate
- Procedures for continuous improvement
- Strict governance
About Netlight
Netlight is a relationship organisation of 2 000 role models making aspiring digital leaders successful. Providing a full range of consultancy services from technology and design to data and management. Netlight has been awarded several times as top employer, as well as for growth, continued profitability and engagement for equality and diversity within the IT industry. Located in Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Zurich, Cologne and Amsterdam.