Modernize Your Applications: Frictionless Migration to Microsoft Azure
Modernize Your Applications
Frictionless Migration to Microsoft Azure
Contents
Bridging to the future
Benefits of using CloudPilot
How CloudPilot migrate your application to Azure platform
Assessment:
Migration:
Optimization
Migration support
Conclusion
Bridging to the future
Enterprises today are tasked with managing their legacy applications while at the same time challenged to modernize their IT all while working within budget restraints. Achieving a secure, hybrid single solution is the goal but until recently it has been virtually impossible to achieve. The benefits of the cloud and other modern application hosting environments—cost savings, flexible lifecycle management, application portability, reduced staffing needs—seem very far away.
Until now, the options for modernizing legacy applications have been limited to refactoring, re-writing or replacing the app. These efforts are expensive, require extensive developer commitment, suffer from scope creep and don’t show value quickly. Often, they fail entirely.
Smart enterprises are embracing a better approach—modernizing their legacy application environments. With the right tool, they see immediate benefits around security, portability, operability, and a substantial cost savings.
CloudPilot® is that tool. CloudPilot delivers measurable value from legacy application modernization in days, not months or years, at a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional modernization projects on Microsoft Azure platform.
CloudPilot uses Microsoft Azure cloud native container technologies to modernize and deploy an application. CloudPilot provides choices, steps and frameworks all along the containerized app lifecycle to deliver application migration at the speed of imagination.
Docker CEO Ben Golub used the term “past-proof and future-proof” to describe the advantages of moving legacy apps to containers.
Containerizing an app doesn’t automatically remove all its technical debt, but there are long-term benefits to putting an old-school business app into a container, as-is, without changing how it works. For one, the app’s lifecycle becomes easier to modernize, as Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich pointed out.
From a central IT perspective, there are advantages of moving to a container / Microsoft services based Architecture provides the potential for moving workloads off high cost environments to cost optimize Microsoft Azure platform. It also dramatically improves the ability to provide load balancing, rapid scaling, security, business intelligence capabilities and security using inbuild services of Microsoft Azure platform
Benefits of using CloudPilot
- Frictionless
- Speed
- PaaS
- Comprehensive
- Secure
- Managed
- Smooth
How CloudPilot migrate your application to Azure platform
There are three major steps in migration journey.
Assessment:
CloudPilot is unique assessment Static code analysis ensures a deep understanding of applications and data to confidently migrate them with ‘No Code Changes’ to Azure Containers, Azure VMs, or Azure App Services (PaaS). CloudPilot checks applications for alignment with Security, Governance & Regulatory Compliance (GRC), and best practices to reduce the risks and costs of moving to Azure. Check your applications against all the possible configuration settings for the Azure services for each application to ensure Security, GRC, and recommended best practices are controlled in Azure.
Migration:
CloudPilot offers multiple containerization options based on application and database compatibility, SLA and Security requirements.
- Azure Container Services
- Azure managed container instances
- Azure App Services
- Windows and Linus containers on Azure VMs
Optimization
The reality of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) is that their environments change rapidly as new services and settings are added and deprecated. CSP-driven changes, combined with the rapidly shifting Cybersecurity threat landscape and varying regulatory and compliance requirements, means that migrating to the Cloud is not “once and done”. It is an ongoing process. CloudSupervisor® is provided for free for six months’ post migration. It will monitor applications after they are migrated to the Cloud to provide application owners and Cloud subscription owners visibility into the underlying Cloud Services and whether the settings and other risk management controls are in line with industry standards or your enterprise definitions.
Migration support
CloudAtlas team provides support to our partners and customer at each stage of migration.
- Migration pilot assistance & deployment shadowing
- Escalation support
- Migration strategy validation
- Technical architecture approach validation
- Azure cost, security and compliance controls for six months post migration
- CloudAtlasInc® Architect continues to provide Advisory Services
Conclusion
Containers represent a modern era of IT transformation, similar to the virtualization era. Unlike virtualization, however, containers reach beyond IT operations and require detailed input from multiple organizations. As a result, businesses must change how these organizations work together. Successful container adoption depends on people and process as much as technology. CloudPilot provides you with necessary technology and process to migrate and modernize application successfully on Azure and Azure stack platform.
Using CloudPilot technology as a foundation for more substantial organizational change, businesses can achieve the efficient software delivery that has become key to success.