In today’s ever-changing corporate environment, adopting cloud implementation services is paramount. These services encompass a comprehensive strategy for transitioning to the cloud, delivering tailored solutions to meet unique organizational needs while offering various benefits. From cost efficiency and scalability to enhanced security and flexibility, cloud implementation services pave the way for enterprises to thrive in the digital era.
Today, more than ever, businesses must develop and deliver services at an unprecedented speed and scale to gain an edge. This means innovating faster, gleaning more insights from data, and creating value across every part of the business. And the cloud can make this possible!
Even before the pandemic, the cloud was a trending technology. Amid the crisis, it has emerged as an urgent business imperative. Organizations are now charting the course for their journeys towards cloud computing strategy.
Global spending on cloud implementation services is projected to surge to USD 59.8 billion in 2023, showing a substantial increase from USD 48.1 billion in 2022, as reported by Gartner. This marks a remarkable growth rate of 24.3%, surpassing the overall growth rate of the cloud computing implementation market.
The upswing in expenditures for cloud implementation services can be attributed to various factors. These include the widespread adoption of cloud computing strategy across businesses of varying sizes, the increasing intricacy of cloud deployments, and the imperative need for companies to ensure the security and compliance of their cloud implementations.
According to the Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report, 87% of organizations have embraced a multi cloud strategy, showcasing the growing trend of leveraging multiple cloud platforms. Additionally, 72% of these organizations opt for a hybrid cloud approach, demonstrating the versatility and benefits of combining public and private cloud resources. Gartner’s forecast, titled “Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2022-2027,” on July 11, 2023, reveals that 65% of organizations actively incorporate cloud-native technologies into their operations.
Furthermore, 58% of these organizations prioritize cloud-based security and compliance solutions, emphasizing the critical importance of safeguarding cloud environments. Finally, automation plays a substantial role in cloud deployments, with 55% of organizations utilizing automated processes to enhance efficiency and streamline operations, per Gartner’s data.
Scalability, agility, rapid deployment, and technology on demand are critical business benefits organizations gain by moving to the cloud. However, simply moving data and applications to the cloud is not enough. It’s an ongoing journey that demands innovative thinking about infrastructure, implementation, and management.
Moreover, as your cloud journey must navigate pitfalls and opportunities specific to your business, it’s imperative to define a clear cloud implementation strategy for successful cloud adoption.
The cloud implementation strategy must address business imperatives and opportunities unique to your business, industry, and objectives. It’s all about outlining a path of continuous transformation that sets the stage for the company you intend to become. Without it, your cloud journey can be hobbled, growth can be hampered, and business value can go unrealized. This is where Veritis comes in.
This post’ll explore the strategy, solutions, implantation steps, and many advantages of embracing cloud implementation services.
What is a Cloud Strategy?
A cloud strategy is a plan that guides how an organization uses cloud technology to achieve its goals. It includes decisions about cloud service models, deployment options, security, data management, and cost control. It’s an intelligent cloud adoption and management roadmap that aligns IT with business objectives.
What are Cloud Implementation Services?
Cloud implementation pertains to the systematic process of integrating cloud computing solutions within an enterprise. Multiple cloud service providers extend these services to facilitate the seamless assimilation of cloud technologies into an existing IT framework. This multifaceted endeavor encompasses a spectrum of tasks, including the meticulous assessment of organizational prerequisites, the judicious selection of an apt cloud platform, intricate configuration and harmonization of cloud solutions, the intricate process of data migration, and the meticulous establishment of robust data security and compliance protocols.
The overarching objective is to empower organizations to optimize the advantages inherent to cloud computing strategy, including—but not limited to—cost reduction, heightened scalability, augmented operational agility, and the enhancement of overall business efficiency. It’s important to underscore that these services are highly adaptable and can be meticulously tailored to align with each organization’s distinctive needs. The range of services spans the gamut, encompassing rudimentary setup and configuration to the intricate orchestration of comprehensive, organization-wide cloud migrations.
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How Do We Help?
Building an agile, cloud-based environment that is in line with the organization’s business objectives requires significant experience in numerous industries and multiple use cases.
Veritis is uniquely positioned to develop, implement, and manage a comprehensive cloud strategy that helps you unlock innovation and confidently adopt the cloud. We enable smooth cloud migration by establishing the right cloud strategy per your business needs, performing cloud-ready assessments, and providing recommendations.
Veritis Cloud Implementation Services follows a holistic, integrated approach that supports leading cloud vendors, including Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. This aspect allows us to identify and implement cloud solutions that fit your unique requirements, either hybrid, edge, or multi-cloud.
Cloud Computing Implementation Steps
Implementing cloud computing requires a sequential series of steps to secure a successful transition. Below are the foundational stages to embark upon:
1) Evaluate Your Workflow, Applications, and Services
This assessment is a valuable tool for seamlessly migrating your workflow, applications, and services to the cloud. It also aids in identifying opportunities for integrating digital innovations into production processes. This document should encompass an inventory of cloud-ready applications, workloads, and tangible advantages achievable through cloud migration.
2) Establish Your Business Objectives
Formulating a cloud strategy commences by clearly outlining your organization’s objectives. This strategic exercise is instrumental in identifying the essential business capabilities required to attain your established business goals.
3) Assess Your Infrastructure Architecture
Thoroughly scrutinize your prevailing data environment, network configuration, and backend infrastructure to assess the implications of the intended migration on your day-to-day business activities. This evaluation is pivotal in ensuring the retention of administrative controls and the preservation of service-level agreements.
4) Prepare Your Applications for Cloud Integration
The predominant migration models are “Lift and Shift” (Rehost) and “Rearchitect” (Refactor). Rehosting involves relocating your application from its current infrastructure to a cloud-based environment. Conversely, refactoring entails modifying the application’s architecture to harness the full spectrum of cloud capabilities.
5) Migrate Your Data
Data migration is a pivotal phase in cloud migration, and its mishandling can lead to adverse consequences. A well-structured data migration plan should encompass several vital elements, including a comprehensive data audit to preempt unforeseen issues, resolve identified challenges, implement controls to uphold data quality, and establish robust governance mechanisms facilitated by vigilant tracking and monitoring.
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Our Portfolio of Cloud Implementation Services
1) Cloud Application Development
We leverage modern, scalable, and reliable cloud architecture patterns built on top of leading cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, to enable full lifecycle application development.
2) Cloud Application Architecture
Veritis helps outline architecture processes and patterns to define common platforms and services for emerging cloud-native services. We assist in selecting and implementing tools and frameworks for common architectures, including user interface frameworks, platform services, and highly available designs.
3) Platform Implementation
We assist in end-to-end technical solution build, configuration, and execution for process design changes to facilitate the adoption of private, public, or hybrid PaaS.
4) Cloud Data Center Services
Plan, design, build, and manage scalable, cost-effective cloud data centers. Right-size your cloud data center’s capacity, resiliency, and efficiency.
Our Cloud Capabilities
Veritis helps you migrate to the cloud, selecting the right solution and architecture to meet your strategic business needs. Our full suite of cloud capabilities – from migration to cloud management – helps your business realize its full promise and achieve value faster.
- Cloud Readiness Assessment. Our cloud experts assess your current IT infrastructure, applications, and data and determine your future computing infrastructure requirements. This data helps determine the best cloud solution based on your strategic business needs.
- Cloud Migration Strategy. Leveraging our domain expertise and industry knowledge, we help you assess your business objectives, identify hidden opportunities, and craft the optimal migration strategy.
- Cloud Migration Planning. Every business is unique, and there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. That’s why we customize the cloud to help meet your business’s unique demands. Whether private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud, we plan and execute complex system migrations to the cloud.
- Cloud Migration Execution. We help you swiftly and securely move your mission-critical core workloads to the cloud and offer a migration management plan to help you stay on track.
- Cloud Management. We offer 24/7 cloud management and monitoring services to maintain optimal performance, availability, and security.
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Business Benefits of Cloud Implementation
Veritis can help you realize both short and long-term benefits with your cloud implementation, such as:
1) IT Cost Reduction: Cloud implementation enables you to pay for only the computing capacity required, eliminating the ongoing expense of purchasing, deploying, maintaining, and managing infrastructure on-premises.
2) Faster Time-to-Market: The cloud enables you to provision and deploy a server in minutes.
3) High Scalability and Elasticity: With a cloud implementation strategy, you can quickly scale workloads automatically in response to fluctuating market demands.
4) Improved Reliability and Business Continuity: Implementing data backup and disaster recovery are typically much more accessible, more affordable, and less disruptive in the cloud than on-premises.
5) Continually Improving Performance: Cloud infrastructure will be regularly updated with the latest, highest-performing computing, storage, and networking hardware.
6) Better Security: With the most flexible and secure cloud environment available today, you can improve your ability to meet core security and compliance requirements.
Why Choose Veritis?
Choosing Veritis as your trusted partner in cloud consulting is a decision backed by over a decade of industry experience and profound domain expertise. As a U.S.-based firm and distinguished recipient of both the Stevie Awards and Globee Business Awards, Veritis stands ready to assist you in crafting a well-defined, efficient, and cost-effective business strategy. This strategy paves the way for your organization to build a stable and scalable platform primed for seamless growth in today’s fiercely competitive market.
Our experts are poised to lead you into the cloud, demonstrating how the right combination of strategies, technology, and resources can expedite your cloud adoption journey. The imperative nature of cloud migration, accentuated by the pandemic, underscores the significance of a well-thought-out cloud implementation strategy. At Veritis, we are committed to ensuring that your migration to the cloud is secure, cost-effective, and exceptionally agile.
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