Cloud Readiness: the Foundation of a Successful Cloud Strategy
Cloud is the foundation of your organization’s digital transformation journey. When you bring together all business units and requirements, you can create a comprehensive cloud strategy that impacts short and long-term business goals.
Moving Applications? Questions To Ask
What applications and data could be smoothly transitioned to the cloud, with minimum business disruption?
Which ones require significant pre-work before migration can begin?
What critical applications need to remain on-premises?
Ensuring cloud readiness is critical before leaping into a migration. An intentional approach will enable you to build a stable, managed, and cost-effective base platform on which to grow.
Get your Organization Ready to Maximize Its Cloud Investment
Burwood advises clients to step back before beginning significant cloud migrations. We evaluate your existing IT investments, application usage, and short and long-term goals to determine how cloud services can help. The availability of a particular kind of cloud service doesn’t justify its use. Your organization’s business and technical goals should drive your cloud choices and design.
Through a comprehensive discovery process, Burwood assesses your current environment and analyzes the resources available and required to leverage the cloud. We help you uncover key challenges related to security, data portability, estimated operational downtime, reliability of your current solutions versus a cloud solution, and other critical issues. Our collaborative process ensures key stakeholder participation and technology administrator knowledge transfer and understanding.
Burwood’s educational approach to cloud strategy and preparation enables your team to confidently tackle workload and application migrations.
“Burwood Group solved our core challenge of data center overload, ensuring that our employees and hosting clients could perform their work without disruption. In addition to building in high availability for our internal applications and hosting services, Burwood’s strategic approach and firm understanding of the financial services industry gave us complete confidence in the solution.”
A Proven Methodology for Successful Cloud Migration
Thinking of moving applications or workloads to the cloud? Starting with a strong foundation of operational processes, practices, and governance is critical to your success. Burwood Group helps you create and execute a thoughtful approach to cloud deployment, backed by automation tools to accelerate cloud migration.
Migrating Applications and Workloads With an Agile Sprint Approach
While each cloud migration has a unique set of drivers and requirements, Burwood’s proven methodology ensures a smooth migration of the right applications and infrastructure at the right time.
Early in the migration process, we help you create a multi-cloud governance framework encompassing cloud provider selection, security, data access, and architectural standards. This clear governance model helps control costs and ensure consistent practices as you select, purchase, design, and deploy new cloud environments.
When we are ready to migrate applications and workloads, intensive upfront planning and an agile sprint migration approach are critical to success. Burwood uses a phased, four-stage methodology:
Discovery
Application evaluation, discovery, and dependency mapping
Planning
Application grouping, infrastructure design, and security considerations
Migration Sprints
Automated migration of applications policies, and settings
Operations
Orchestration and management tools to optimize usage over time
Ready to get started with cloud migration? Identifying a use case or application is a critical first step. We recently migrated our own client services portal from an application server to containers on Google Cloud. Check out our process and lessons learned in our blog post recap.
Manufacturing
Leverage cloud computing to drive your industrial IoT strategy.
Financial Services
Improve investment and market agility with cloud-based platforms.
Healthcare
HIPAA compliant and attack-proof cloud infrastructure design.
Higher Education
Foster faculty and student collaboration with agile cloud-based applications.
Drive Business Growth with Data Intelligence
More visibility, improved productivity, and better decision-making: all results of effective data analysis and reporting. Burwood helps organizations build business analytics to bring clarity to your performance today, and predictive analytics to inform your growth strategy.
Make Better Decisions with Business and Predictive Analytics
Creating An Intelligent Data Architecture: Questions To Ask
What would my ideal business analytics dashboard look like?
What are the key performance indicators that I need to measure?
Where does my current data live? Are these systems connected?
How should data access permissions be determined?
Creating a data warehouse—a central data repository, optimized for analytics—is foundational to any data analytics project. And cloud is a scalable, cost-effective platform. Burwood’s data engineers create purpose-built, secure cloud data architectures, linking disparate data silos with batch and real-time data pipeline construction.
We identify these data silos in detailed requirements gathering sessions at the start of any project. With a comprehensive understanding of your desired KPIs, existing data locations, and priority use cases for how you want to use the data, Burwood’s data engineers can design and deploy a sophisticated, cloud-based data analytics architecture.
Partners for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud
Burwood Group’s approach to cloud readiness and migration is vendor agnostic. We design private, public, and hybrid cloud environments using best in class cloud platforms, automation technology, and monitoring systems. Visit our partners page for a full list.
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The cloud can create improved agility, scalability, and security for your applications and workloads. Contact our team today to get started with an assessment, migration, or strategy workshop.
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