Steps to Understanding Your IT Before Moving to the Cloud

To understand your IT before moving to the cloud is an essential strategy to be developed by the On-Premises owners, in – order to best use the cloud services and products. According to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that Can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction”. Therefore, the strategy must include the service methodologies, and the approach to reach the objectives aligned with service-level agreements (SLAs) and other guidelines for IaaS/PaaS/SaaS.

Analyze the following requirements:

• The On-Premise applications might require optimizing the solutions automatically for server time, networking storage and system operations.
• Infrastructure might require Broad network bandwidth with secured network protocols and standard solutions to access services for their full utilization.
• The requirements for thick and thin client platforms such as for Smart cellular phones and gadgets must be fulfilled with best performance scenarios and data accessibility.
• Specifying any location at higher level of categorization such as for country, state or datacenters as the CSP might be providing resource pooling with multi tenancy at different levels for physical and virtual allocation.
• Provisioning of system capabilities must be proportionate and flexible with that on cloud to be adopted quickly with adequate performances.
• Identification of resource usability in terms of storage, processing, bandwidth and active user sessions per account. Cloud will monitor and control each service with transparency, either for consumer or for provider.
• Understanding the SaaS model, will enable the consumer on how to use the provider’s application on cloud. Consumer will no more have the control or could limit the authorization or authentication for user specific configurational settings with respect to storage, networking, servers and operating systems. The application on cloud will be accessible through various client interface such as web browsers, desktop or mobile interfaces.
• In PaaS, the consumer can provide privileges for the application- hosted environment but do not have to manage the complete infrastructure and will be supported by tools and services by the provider.
• Under IaaS, the consumer is free to control over the operating systems, storage and networking and could limit and protect the system with different options available such as firewall hosting and the cloud management services will be delivered by the provider.
• On a private cloud, the On-Premise application will be provisioned to be extensively and exclusively used for a single organization with multiple consumers or business domains. The services might be owned and managed by the organization itself or by a third party and may exist on or off premises.
• Identify, if your organization require a “Community Cloud” for system and application to be accessed by a specific community of consumers for shared resources and concerns such as mission, security issues, policy and compliance requirements. System under these can be operated and owned by any one organization within the community or by a third party and may exist on or off premises.
• The application of On-Premises will now be accessible openly by the public and may be owned and managed by any of the organization (academic / Government).The system infrastructure will be deployed on the premises of cloud provider.
• For the Hybrid cloud, the private or public clouds can be merged with unique identification for each but are combined together with standard or registered technology that enables data and application movability such as cloud bursting for load balancing in cloud systems.
• While migrating to cloud, the application architecture must be analyzed for application management, security, environment compatibility and database compatibility.
• All the system architectural patterns with respect to distributed computing are equally applicable for applications developed for on-premises or cloud deployment.
• Operations on cloud require data to use and make effective decisions. The scenarios include service-level agreements, capacity planning, customer billing, auditing, monitoring and analyzing traffic and effectively manage costs associated with each service. Exact estimations must be done before deployment of any application on cloud and for best performances; these must be analyzed before the system is developed.
• Consumers need to analyze the data sources of the application (User entry or database or any other application), the integration mechanism with other components, the standardization of process and the exact resources of development of any product. Through this, one can determine the application readiness for cloud migration with minimized resources for physical and virtual space on cloud.

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Enterprise planning is essential for implementing and managing cloud solutions for various applications while migrating to cloud. The migration activities should map with the cloud strategic steps to get the most of cloud environment. The business requirements for complete life cycle of any project can be streamlined with better planning and execution of the approach. Analyze the phase in your system and IT infrastructure processes, when the exact need to implement cloud is emerged and the essential tactics, business needs to follow. This process of analysis is equally followed by large enterprise and SMBs. So it is required to implement a cloud strategy that is accurate and effective for your business.

Following are the required scenarios for any IT enabled infrastructure merging with cloud.

• IT services should be business oriented.
• Application should support multiple browsers and operating systems for the recent technological enhancements in the market.
• Providing a common ground for multiple subscribers to plug and play their infrastructure’s vision with single pool for all resources.
• Accessibility on the cloud environment with scalable and flexible solutions.
• End users might require detailed information of the product for initial approvals. Creating effective use cases, storyboarding, and executing online webinars or one to one sessions with the customer will prove the best technique in making the customer familiar with the requirements of cloud environment.
• Understanding the capability of system and applications to extend business operations with respect to private, public and hybrid clouds.
• Analyze ROI measurements.
• Keeping the growth constant with consecutive execution of processes.

End users accessing the systems on cloud is generally not aware about the cloud base on which the application is working on. Application owners must be attentive to accumulate different components and information running between distributed environments. Application performance must be analyzed with different analytics tools and systems to fetch and track the utilization of the system by different resources and users. In this way, the core issues holding the growth of overall performance for each zone associated with the system, the cloud environment and the organizational processes could be easily and effectively resolved. Monitoring is another effective and essential component in application management to get the details of system performance on different levels of execution. It helps to maintain the quality standards.

Monitoring usage:

• System health determination at all levels.
• Tracking the effectiveness of each component for bulk content.
• Checking for the constant throughput with complete system execution life cycle.
• Tracing the system accuracy with service-level agreements (SLAs) for SaaS, PaaS or IaaS established with the customer.
• Determining the loopholes and then to rectify the issues with constant technical or administrative support.
• Subsequent updates for software and deployment to keep the application health and performance on track.
• Ensuring quality maintenance for all the deliverables. Visit Us!

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Today’s corporate world with highly technical usage of data and services for their on-premises infrastructure are looking for best cloud service provider like Microsoft Azure as one of the key source of cybersecurity management and compliance. Azure Management Tools with number of security information services is providing solutions for Virtual machine analysis, Network analysis, Resource analysis and Blink spot analysis. Azure cloud migration tools are providing services in compliance with SaaS/IaaS/PaaS as ASM (Azure service management) and ARM (Azure Resource Management). Azure Management tools include built in security in their software code following the strategy for Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). Azure cloud migration tools embeds security requirements into the software development life cycle starting from planning to deployment and maintenance .They have Operational Security Assurance (OSA) process guidelines to be laid out for if any issue arises and ensure its resolve. Establishing industry best practices with low cost is now available with the help of Azure migrated services for small scale to big entrepreneurs, Azure is giving high scale performances in compliance with data security and regulations. Following are the benefits of having migrated your on-premises business with cybersecurity services available for public cloud with Azure management tools

> Cybersecurity and Network threats are the major focus of Azure Management Tools providing on-premises resources with minimum requirement of data storage at their own.

> Cost-effective scale – Small scale business with minimum resources can now access the full advantage of Cloud.

> SMBs accessing technical expertise at low cost with all services enabled with Azure security assurance is moving their business at faster growth and organized and equipped with current technologies.

> Site – to –site VPN – CloudAtlas® is using, Azure cloud migration tools to block unauthorized access of data for on-premises applications and networks and provide infrastructure with securely connected virtual machines and connection of on-premises datacenters with Azure VMs.

> Encryption of operating processes and communication networks , At UnifyCloud our services and products like CloudAtlas® Suite is following transport protocols for data and other communication services based on Azure encryption capabilities giving on-premises to choose the cloud services that best fit their requirements.