Cloud Migration

Cloud migration is an important new trend in IT infrastructure that can vastly improve a company’s work flow and technological capacity. Migrating to the Cloud offers increased effectiveness of data health, increased IT systems performance, and major savings in an agency’s IT budget.

Taking advantage of the Cloud’s features can be as simple as replacing an in-house application with a Cloud-based service, or as thorough as relocating your entire application workload into public cloud space. Our experience can help you determine best candidates for migration, and start looking towards the modernization of your environment.

This is a process that requires a lot of nuance. Just like our agile process, we enact a constant Discovery Process to ensure that we are making the most out of the migration, potential cost savings, and the most effective use of the technology.

Client Benefits

Major cost savings

We work hard to save you the most money and create the most efficiencies for your business. You can then reinvest savings into innovative cutting-edge technologies that will improve your business work flow and overall success.
In summary, here’s where our expertise lies in cloud migration:
Knowledge & analytics
Ongoing discovery process
Harmonizing applications, data, and software to work together in the best way for your business

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner

We are thrilled to announce that Makpar is now an official AWS partner at the Select Tier status. We are excited to extend these benefits to our clients to help them create the most efficient cloud strategies to achieve mission success.

Our Cloud Migration Strategy

Ongoing Discovery

What makes us stand out is we have an in-depth discovery process. To ensure we have an absolute full understanding of what applications, servers, and data you’re working with, we start with an in-person (or virtual, given the times) interview discovery. Then, we visit your data centers to physically examine servers to get a thorough understanding of exactly what needs to be moved, right down to serial numbers. Only then can we have a reasonable conversation to plan the migration.

Efficiency Built In

Often clients don’t realize the efforts being duplicated by too many servers or the capabilities they don’t realize their existing applications have that they’re underutilizing. Makpar is here to make your life easier and make your systems run to the best of their ability.

Staff Augmentation

Many clients have brilliant IT engineers on staff who are capable of planning and implementing a cloud migration, but lack the bandwidth, given their normal workload, to focus on a migration project. That’s where we come in. We can augment your IT staff to enact a full-process cloud migration so your team can still focus on what’s most important: getting your work done and keeping your business running.

The stages of cloud migration

Rationalized Analysis

Our cloud migration experts will sit down to rationalize each current application’s work load and ability. Some of these legacy applications won’t be able to move to the public cloud, due to outdated developer builds. Others will be a sure-fire fit for the move.

Ongoing Discovery

Discovery lasts the entirety of the process. Through an interview as well as a data-center visit to throughly understand every facet of the work loads we’re migrating, we’re able to make the most intelligent plans for the migration.

Planning & Organizing

From the findings in the above phases, we create a visual map in which we group the migrations into work loads. Work loads are determined by business function. Applications are interdependent in surprising ways. We use this opportunity to group applications together for increased overall functionality within the IT system.

Implement

Then, we divide those work loads into specific migration waves. With each migration wave, we set up an implementation session. Each implementation session will depend on how we’ve agreed we’ll move each group, depending on the work load’s specific needs. This may be a lift & shift, replace with different servers, or utilize a third party for advanced migration needs.