Cloud Cost Optimisation
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Comprehensive analysis of the business and technical aspects of cloud migration
OUTCOMES
Results of partnership
Preparedness audit
The client knows the best available migration paths and can estimate the time and money needed for successful cloud migration.
Business and tech aspects
The report is targeted both at decision-makers and tech personnel involved in migration.
Risk elimination
The client can solve tech problems and issues before the migration begins.
PROJECT
Genesis and business expectations
Our client wanted to reduce risks related to local equipment failure and ensure high availability for their insurance portfolio; to this end, they started thinking of migrating their entire infrastructure to the public cloud. Their secondary objective was to simplify their environment and reduce its maintenance costs. They hired Altkom Software to perform a comprehensive cloud exit analysis, including four providers: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud.
At this stage, it was already clear to us that the analysis would need to include the following elements: different migration strategies, along with a cost breakdown, measures that would need to be taken before cloud exit and total migration costs for each of the four providers. We would also need to show how to lower the total costs of migration and cloud resource management.
Based on our analysis, the client would then decide whether they wanted to migrate their infrastructure at all, and if so, which cloud provider they preferred.
PROJECT TIME
5 months
INDUSTRY
Insurance
COUNTRY
Poland
SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS
The client
Who have we helped?
Our client was the Polish branch of a large international insurance company. At the outset, the company had around one hundred physical servers in place. We started by collecting complete data about their resources and infrastructure specifications (e.g. licence costs, different environments and their operation, backups, server SLAs, etc.).
REQUIREMENTS
Business challenges
- Performing a full migration analysis for different public cloud providers,
- Creating an interdisciplinary team of experts specialised in working with each of the four cloud providers,
- Impartiality (not favouring one provider).
ACTIONS
Project execution process
Obtaining the full list of servers along with their specifications.
Solution
Scope and delivery model
We performed our analysis and drew up a report to help the client identify possible cloud exit directions. The document included migration strategies and costs, as well as those elements of the client’s environment that would require changes in the architecture.
- We checked and assessed the servers indicated by the client as marked for migration in terms of migration preparedness;
- We identified and listed potential migration risks, as well as factors that would impact the process;
- We checked whether the client’s systems could be migrated and recommended the most profitable model (e.g. Lift and Shift or Refactor);
- We presented a cost estimate for each of the four providers;
- We defined the necessary composition and skills of the team that would maintain the cloud environment;
- We listed recommendations for each provider, including hybrid solutions and a possible cloud PoC.
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