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Hardware have created a range of services to help existing cloud customers make the best use of their cloud environment, as well as assist customers who are considering moving to a cloud environment with their journey.

Typically, customers who are considering a move to the cloud need help identifying what workflows and services are suitable for cloud occupancy. With our range of services, we can work with you to ensure a smooth and cost-effective migration.

Migration and Planning

Hardware have created a range of services to help existing cloud customers make the best use of their cloud environment, as well as assist customers who are considering moving to a cloud environment with their journey. Typically, customers who are considering a move to the cloud need help identifying what workflows and services are suitable for cloud occupancy. With our range of services, we can work with you to ensure a smooth and cost-effective migration.

Cloud Ready Assessment

You need to understand what services and applications are suitable to be moved to the cloud, we can work with you to identify:

• What applications are currently in use?
• Workflow and traffic patterns
• Assessment of cloud connectivity options
• Identification of on-prem and cloud requirements
• Assessment of current application and performance metrics

Cloud Optimisation

We can work with you to evaluate an existing cloud environment and recommend ways to improve performance or reduce costs:

• Capacity planning?
• Definition of services deployed within the cloud
• Potential cost savings by utilising new instances or performing auto power-downs
• Scalability options
• Review of environment with industry best practises recommendations
• Trend analysis and performance audits
• Review of systems and application configuration and monitoring

Security Assessments

Continual assessment and improvement of your cloud security posture is vital to protect your vital data and applications.

• Measure the overall health of an organszation’s infrastructure/cloud environment and information security program
• Identify internal & external security gaps & vulnerabilities
• Discover any areas of concern, including unpatched systems, open ports, and compliance violations
• Find security bugs and loopholes that could potentially be used to harm their environment
• Outline & develop an actionable plan to mitigate the identified risks and vulnerabilities
• Approach & methodologies are based on industry standards & practices, such as the National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST)

AWS Migration Services

Once a cloud strategy has been defined and agreed with all major stake holders within the business, our team can work with you to migrate services to AWS. We can undertake a full AWS migration that includes:

• Pre-migration evaluation SOW (Discovery Phase): Requirement gathering and analysis, Feasibility check, Rough efforts, cost and timeline
• Identification of migration approach (5-R Framework: Re-host, Refactor, Revise, Rebuild, or Replace)
• Migration plan
• Migration
• Solidification, Optimization and Automation
• Training and Handover