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Infrastructure-as-a-Service – Lift, Shift and Optimise
Cobweb’s Infrastructure Modernisation service has been created to help businesses looking to address IT infrastructure challenges and to meet business growth and transformation goals.
Whether migrating a single on-premise server, a small comms room or a full-blown data centre, the public cloud delivers increased agility, enhanced security and lower costs.
Various triggers can become prompts for organisations to move on-premise IT Infrastructure and applications to the cloud – for example:
Rising on-premises IT infrastructure costs
An aging or out-of-supply legacy infrastructure
Security threats and disaster recovery needs
Storage capacity limits
The need for increased agility to deliver business growth
New compliance regulations
Using industry best practice and more than 20 years’ experience helping customers move to the cloud, Cobweb’s cloud experts will work in partnership with your team to assess, migrate to and optimise your existing IT infrastructure in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
The service comprises three phases, during which we:
1. Assess
To understand your business transformation goals Review your existing IT infrastructure and applications to evaluate migration readiness Identify a future state road map Propose the new cloud solution design to enable you to achieve your business goals.
2. Migrate
One of the following methodologies will be used to move your infrastructure to the cloud -
- Rehost: a simple and cost-effective ‘Lift and Shift’
- Refactor: where possible, we’ll move applicable elements to Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions, to drive scalability and cost efficiency gains – for example, through moving existing SQL databases to SQL Azure
- Replace: with this option, there’s transition from an infrastructure-based model to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution – for example, through moving an on-premise legacy accounting application to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Analyse and monitor to manage cloud use and spend, to allocate and trim costs
Use of security and management tools
4. Manage Cobweb’s optional managed services include:
Monitoring your cloud infrastructure and reactive support
Security and patch management
Backup