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The Best Cloud Migration Services & Companies to Make Your Transition a Success

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The Best Cloud Migration Services & Companies to Make Your Transition a Success
Author: DuploCloud | Tuesday, September 13 2022
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These tools and services will help you transfer legacy data from on-premises hardware to the cloud

The cloud is rapidly becoming the backbone of modern business infrastructure, and organizations all over the world are racing to grab some of the more than $1 trillion in cost-saving optimizations and efficiencies it will provide. However, many businesses don’t have the resources or knowledge necessary to migrate to the cloud successfully, so they hesitate and fall behind their competitors.

Luckily, numerous cloud migration services exist to aid businesses in migrating their legacy data from on-premises systems to cloud platforms quickly and reliably. Whether you’re looking for automation assistance, specific first-party migration tools, or need cloud migration companies to guide you through the process, the following solutions will help with your migration.

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Best Cloud Migration Services

Infrastructure and Security Controls Automation: DuploCloud

Guided Migrations: 2nd Watch

Business Application Migration: Infosys

Content-Fragmented Network Migration: AvePoint Migration

First-Party Migration Options

Best Cloud Migration Companies

Accenture

IBM Consulting

N-ix

Make Your Transition to the Cloud Seamless With DuploCloud

Best Cloud Migration Services

Infrastructure and Security Controls Automation: Duplocloud

Successful migrations require an effective plan, and part of that plan involves mapping out the high-level application infrastructure of the cloud environment. This mapping considers user access, security interface, and more, enabling DevOps teams to build the necessary framework to complete the migration. 

However, this process involves hundreds of low-level configurations that stitch into these high-level application layers and often requires writing thousands of lines of additional code. This process is highly time-consuming, often taking weeks or even months to complete, depending on the scale of the cloud migration. In addition, manual work always has the potential to introduce bugs or security vulnerabilities into the process.

DuploCloud’s cloud migration solutions enable developers to automate many infrastructure-generating and security controls provisioning processes. It’s a DevOps automation platform designed to accelerate migration processes and infrastructure generation by a factor of ten thanks to advanced blueprint mapping and data migration techniques. And because many of the most critical security and compliance regulations (such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and GDPR) rely on standardized procedures, DuploCloud automatically maps your infrastructure to these standards to maximize security. DuploCloud also enables automated monitoring and alert systems to ensure data transfers successfully and remains secure.

Read our whitepaper to learn more about how DuploCloud’s automation can reduce cloud migration costs by up to 75%.

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Guided Migrations: 2nd Watch

Organizations starting from square one may not know what services they need or whether they should migrate to AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. 2nd Watch provides guided cloud migrations based on a lift and shift strategy to get organizations operating in the cloud fast and with minimal fuss. 

To do this, 2nd Watch walks companies through the entire process, from assessment to designing the architecture, to deployment, migration, optimization, and beyond. They’re able to work with anything from single workloads to data centers, can handle hybrid or multi cloud environments, and are capable of migrating to all major cloud service platforms.

Ready to take your understanding of cloud migration further? Check out The Essential Guide to Cloud Migration.

Business Application Migration: Infosys

Infosys specializes in helping businesses move their applications into the cloud, with experience in converting web applications, legacy virtual servers, databases, and ERP systems into cloud-native technology platforms on AWS and Azure. It handles this through a catalog of over 300 blueprints, which organizations can use to standardize the deployment of their applications. Teams can also use included AI solutions to reduce deployment times and maximize the efficiency of resources. In addition, Infosys automates remediation during the migration process, making applications more reliable in the cloud. 

Content-Fragmented Network Migration: AvePoint Migration

Legacy on-prem networks have likely accumulated a large amount of data, much of it disorganized and spread out across multiple file servers. Many organizations have also embraced cloud storage platforms like Google Drive or Dropbox and communication platforms like email and Slack. Consolidating all this information into one platform can be a massive undertaking, so AvePoint specializes in a simple solution that migrates these disparate sources into either Microsoft 365 or SharePoint.

First, AvePoint will perform a pre-scan on your migration sources, determining the volume of content and whether it needs to be refactored to work with Microsoft 365 or Sharepoint. Once everything is ready, AvePoint will automate migration, allowing you to track progress through the migration platform. Once the dust has settled, all your content will appear in the platform you’ve specified — Slack messages will appear in Teams, email will appear in Outlook, Dropbox content will appear in OneDrive, and so on. 

First-Party Migration Options

If you know which cloud platform you want to migrate to, then it’s worth investigating each platform’s official solutions. They’ll often include migration as part of their overall subscription package, or offer free-to-start plans for new users.

Organizations migrating to Microsoft Azure can use Azure Migrate. Migrate provides end-to-end visibility with an interactive dashboard, guiding users through each migration phase. There’s a wide range of support for different databases, web applications, and virtual desktops, allowing for migration to Azure products like Virtual Machines, App Service, and more. New organizations start with a $200 free credit for use within the first 30 days, eventually transitioning to a pay-as-you-go plan.

AWS features a few different migration services, but Amazon currently recommends AWS Application Migration Service as the primary migration service (unless it’s unavailable in your region). AWS Application Migration Service ensures minimal downtime during migration, as it replicates the source servers during the process. AWS also automates the modernization process with preconfigured actions to ensure they operate within the cloud. Organizations can sign up for the free tier to receive 2,160 hours (90 continuous days) of free migration, after which AWS charges accounts a per-hour server replication fee.

Google Cloud provides a wealth of cloud migration services depending on your needs. Use Database Migration Service to migrate databases to Cloud SQL, migrate applications into containers or virtual machines, or modernize your data through streamlined services. New users receive $300 in credit to spend over 90 days and access to all Google Cloud Platform services, like Firebase and Google Maps API. Unlike Azure or AWS, Google Cloud will only transfer to a pay-as-you-go plan once you manually choose to upgrade to a paid account.

Best Cloud Migration Companies

The following cloud migration companies provide complete consulting and assisted migration services to help inexperienced organizations migrate successfully — with minimal headaches.

Accenture

Accenture’s Cloud First platform enables organizations to fully assess their current infrastructure, application, and data needs. Then, it provides a plan that migrates operations as seamlessly as possible. Accenture supports Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud platforms through Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, or Software-as-a-Service delivery methods.

IBM Consulting

With over a century of engineering and computing experience, IBM remains one of the foremost resources for enterprise solutions. IBM offers cloud migration consulting services, developing migration strategies and providing insight into improving security, compliance, and efficiency.

N-ix

N-ix offers cloud migration consulting services for startups and enterprises, helping companies like Office Depot and Gogo migrate operations efficiently. N-ix uses a five-step process, which involves developing a readiness assessment, designing the solution, constructing a pilot migration, and providing support once the migration is complete.

Make Your Transition to the Cloud Seamless With DuploCloud

Building the infrastructure necessary to migrate legacy on-prem systems to the cloud is tedious, often requiring hundreds of individual configurations and thousands of lines of infrastructure-as-code. With DuploCloud, you can optimize your migration plan by automating standardized controls to reduce deployment time and cost by up to 80%. Then, modernize your legacy applications, build staging environments, and deploy to production in record time.

Read our whitepaper for more information on how DuploCloud can make your transition to the cloud as smooth as possible.

Author: DuploCloud | Tuesday, September 13 2022
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