We help companies migrate workloads and applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud from your office, data center, and even AWS. Take your work to the cloud, and we’ll take care of all the details.
What Are Cloud Migration Services?
Cloud migration services are specialized solutions that help businesses move their data, applications, and workloads from on-premises infrastructure or other cloud environments to a cloud-based platform. These services encompass the entire migration process, from planning and strategy to execution and post-migration support. The goal of cloud migration services is to ensure a seamless, secure, and efficient transition to the cloud. We’ll minimize downtime and disruptions to business operations, so you can keep working.
The process typically begins with an assessment of the current IT environment, identifying which applications and data are suitable for migration and determining the best cloud strategy—whether it’s a public, private, or hybrid cloud. We’re specialists with Microsoft Azure specialists, so you can feel confident as we guide you through your migration.
Our cloud migration services also include data migration, application reconfiguration, and integration with existing systems. Additionally, we’ll address critical factors like security, compliance, and cost management to optimize the cloud environment for performance and scalability. When you migrate effectively to the cloud, you’ll experience increased flexibility, scalability, and savings. And when you migrate with Emergent Software, we’ll ensure your transition is carried out with minimal risk and maximum efficiency.
What Are the Types of Cloud Migration?
Not all cloud migration services are the same. Our team at Emergent Software is equipped to support the migration type that best suits your organization’s needs. The six main types of cloud migration to understand are:
- Rehosting. This is one of the most common ways to do it. It entails lifting your stack and shifting it from on-premises hosting to the cloud. It’s a quick fix, and works well for companies with smaller cloud strategies.
- Replatforming. This is one step further than rehosting. You still lift and put your stack on the cloud, but you make a few further adjustments to optimize your landscape for the cloud. This can increase system performance.
- Repurchasing. This involves moving your applications to a new, cloud-native product, most commonly a SaaS platform. You might lose familiarity with some systems, but it’s a good way to handle adjusting from a legacy landscape.
- Refactoring. This is where you build your applications in the cloud from scratch rather than trying to move them over. It’s often the most time-consuming option, but it enhances scalability and prepares your company for future innovations.
- Retiring. One approach is to audit your applications to see if there are some that aren’t being used. You can simply retire those and focus on moving active programs to the cloud.
- Retaining. Sometimes you’ll keep some of your programs on-site. This is a good option for companies who have a few programs that require high-level security features. Those that aren’t quite as high-priority can be moved to the cloud while you retain others in their original form.
A Guide For Your Digital Journey To The Cloud
With Emergent Software as an extension of your team, we help you determine and plan the best approach for your digital journey to the Azure cloud. We start with a full understanding of your business, digital estate, and future plans, and then identify the most appropriate method to move each application. As a company with extensive software development experience, we can help rehost, refactor, rearchitect, or even rebuild your applications to take advantage of what the cloud has to offer. Together, we’ll determine the best type of cloud migration service, and then our team will make it happen.
Expand Your Cloud Mindset
Migrating to the cloud is often mistakenly viewed as merely moving virtual workloads to a cloud provider. The truth goes well beyond simply moving each piece of the digital estate to Azure, AWS, or GCP and calling it complete. This mindset leads to missing opportunities with security, availability, and performance improvement and often results in fragmented solutions with many assets in different providers. Such complicated solutions are costly to support and difficult to maintain. Our holistic approach helps you take advantage of all the cloud has to offer.
Beyond Lift & Shift
Our roots as a software development company provide access to extensive software engineering and database architecture knowledge which allow us to offer cloud migrations that go way beyond a simple lift and shift. Many cloud companies resort to the lift and shift approach because they don’t have the skillset to evaluate custom software and databases to support cloud-native services. Not only are all the applications and databases we develop built for cloud-native hosting, but we also regularly assess our client's existing applications and databases for cloud readiness and make the necessary adjustments for cloud enablement.
Cloud-enabling your applications and databases significantly reduces operating systems' maintenance and minimizes exposure to malicious actors. Don’t just move your headaches from the data center to the cloud. Let Emergent Software help you move to a more lean and nimble approach to IT.
Combining our Azure cloud architecture knowledge, .NET software development skills, and SQL Server expertise make us the perfect cloud partner to move any or all aspects of your enterprise to the cloud in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
