Cloud Migration and Management Tools

A suite of solutions from UnifyCloud help you define your Cloud strategy, move applications and workloads to the Cloud quickly and efficiently, and ensure that proper IT controls, policies, and budget goals are met.

Phases of Cloud Migration

Navigate the Cloud Smoothly

Effectively migrating from a traditional, on-premises IT environment to a Hybrid IT environment that may include elements of SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS requires a logical set of steps. As Gartner has noted, “An organization cannot simply ‘jump’ to the Cloud. There need to be activities that are part of a phased evaluation and plan to move to the Cloud.”

Discover and Access

Create an inventory of applications and workloads that are candidates for the Cloud: SaaS (replace), IaaS (relocate), PaaS (refactor / rebuild). Use criteria such as data compliance requirements, architecture, hardware dependency, software End of Support (EOS), and mission criticality.

CloudRecon®, an application discovery tools, is able to scan your on-premise data-center, and infrastructure to identify and list key assets such as servers, applications, physical & virtual servers, CPU, & more.

Target Migrate

For PaaS-bound apps, you must determine the specific services required (e.g., Compute, Storage, Network), and validate at the code level what refactoring is necessary, remediation, and then test against PaaS standards you develop. You should use this same process for new “Cloud-born” apps.

When decommissioning old applications and using SaaS apps; moving VMs or data storage to IaaS; or modernizing critical line of business applications to run on PaaS, CloudPilot® and CloudOrigin® can augment and ensure you migrate the correct applications cost effectively, securely, and compliantly,

Monitor and Report

Using a baseline of enterprise standards for Cloud IT controls and best practices, monitor and report on app compliance as PaaS environments evolve, apps are changing, and enterprise standards are updated.

CloudSupervisor® monitors the configuration settings of underlying Cloud Services of applications in Azure for Cost, Security & Compliance (GRC). As changes occur to the security and compliance standards for applications in Azure; thorough reporting ensures that compliance is monitored and enforced across all subscriptions, controlling ‘drift’.

WHAT CHALLENGES ARE YOU LOOKING TO SOLVE?

CLOUD CHALLENGES

Navigating the Cloud can be difficult. Leverage our expertise within your business

Cost Management

Surprises can sometimes be great; but never when it is on a bill. Using read-only credentials, CloudAtlas aggregates your billing, usage, and tagging data from your cloud subscriptions, analyzing them to providing advanced Cloud Cost Management reports, dashboards, and alerts.
Stay in control of your cloud accounts and eliminate surprises in your bill with daily reports, dashboards, and alerts. Visualize resource usage to stop waste before it starts and right-size underutilized resources. Use these monitoring tools to ensure you always know what you are spending, what you are using, and when and where things are changing.

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Continuous Compliance Monitoring

Constantly evolving compliance environments are requiring flexibility, control, and clarity that is provided by tools and automation. Cloud-based solutions automate compliance and risk management, allowing you to deploy quickly to continuously monitor compliance across a global scale.
CloudAtlas provides the security, audit, and visibility tools to help fulfill PCI, HIPAA, FISMA Moderate, and other major compliance frameworks.

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Security and Compliance

Gain critical insights into areas of your environment to understand and get alerts on changes to configurations, resources, and security groups. CloudAtlas digests logs, configs, and data, to provide insights and to help identify risks. These tools allow you to understand your CyberSecurity environment and current software deployments to identify what is deployed, detect areas of potential risk, and save money by locating and removing redundant or outdated technologies.

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Cloud Inventory

An infrastructure scan is necessary not only to determine what needs to be moved, but what does not need to be moved. Early in the process, it is important to determine what should not be migrated and to identify outdated and redundant applications.
Using application discovery tools to augment the planning and execution of a cloud migration project, migrate your on-premises workload to the cloud, smoothly, securely, and cost effectively. These scans create accurate reports on your key assets such as servers, applications, VM-related information, and more.

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Journey to the Cloud

Moving effectively from a traditional on-premises IT environment to a Hybrid IT environment that may include elements of Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) requires a logical set of steps. As Gartner has noted, “An organization cannot simply ‘jump’ to the Cloud. There need to be activities that are part of a phased evaluation and plan to move to the Cloud.”

This phased process begins with the discovery and assessment of what VMs, servers, workloads and applications you actually have deployed in your current IT environment. Once you know the starting point and understand your goals and objectives to utilize the Cloud, you need to determine what should be moved and how to make that happen. Organizations successful in using the Cloud know that moving to “the Cloud” is not once and done. Things change and ongoing management is critical.

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