Design et migration
Your migration to the cloud managed by our experts
We will help you design and execute a cloud migration for your applications while guaranteeing minimal service interruptions.
Architecture: design and approve your architecture on our platform in 5 steps
- Evaluate the portability of your application portfolio
- Understand and use best practices to improve portability
- Select activation technologies for portable cloud architectures
- Give the application/service more contextual independence
- Maintain stricter monitoring during production deployment
Migration services: we will support you at every step of the migration process
- Migration plan and migration management
- Migration strategy based on several possible scenarios
- Mechanism for replicating applications / servers / data to minimize switch latency
- Specific approaches for ADs, databases, file servers
- Testing before and after to secure the migration
The advantages of the support of our experts
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Transparency
Limited impact on your main business users
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Custom migration
Based on your applications’ criticality
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Reducing technical debt
Revising and refactoring existing applications to reduce technical debt
A 4-step migration strategy:
- Choosing the right migration strategy
- Guaranteeing service continuity for your business
- Scheduling migration waves
- Monitoring operational migration activities
REHOST
- Source and target synchronized by the network, up to the switch
- Minimal interruption of service
- Solutions based on software agents (servers or source hypervisor)
- 3-step operation: source snapshot, target copy, delta synchronization
- Transfer of VM images or data files by network or external storage
REPLATFORM
- Recreating new environments: VM, OS, middleware, associated services
- Replication and integration of data on the target solution
REFACTOR
- Application changes
- OS version upgrade
- Version upgrade or database type change
Use case of our support on design and migration:
One of the world’s largest mining companies chooses Orange Business to host its SAP ERP:
Background
- 80 VMs hosted at 2 remote datacenters / 90 Tb of data.
- SAP ERP + testing and application servers Development / testing / production environments.
Challenges
- Complete the migration in 5 months, with strict deadlines.
- Low-risk migration strategy, with no visible impact on businesses and end users.
- Comprehensive testing strategy, with technical and functional testing for each VM migration.
Solution
- A flexible migration methodology that meets the client’s migration sequencing, testing strategy, and switchover needs.
- Highly automated migration operations with Double-Take and post-configuration scripts.
- Client satisfaction thanks to respect of delivery terms with a minimum of service interruptions.
Our architecture and migration services can help you in other instances such as:
- Designing hybrid architectures.
- Optimizing architectures for the cloud.
- Migrating environments to the cloud with a level of service interruption that is optimized for your situation.