Cloud Implementation Services For Right Scalability

Cloud is a trending technology. And with it, scalability, agility, rapid deployment, and technology on-demand are just some of the critical business benefits organizations gain. However, simply moving the data & applications to the cloud is insufficient.

Being an ongoing journey, you can expect to navigate multiple pitfalls and opportunities specific to your business. It demands innovative thinking about infrastructure, implementation, and management across phases. Defining a clear cloud implementation strategy is imperative for successful cloud adoption.

This article explores how enterprises can reap the benefits of cloud implementation with focused steps and services.

Key Contents  

• What are Cloud Implementation Services?
• Rishabh Software’s Cloud Implementation Experience Overview
• Benefits of Cloud Implementation With Rishabh Software
• Cloud Computing Implementation Steps
• Tools & Technologies We Use
• Our Cloud Computing Implementation Success Stories

It refers to the process of deploying cloud computing solutions within an organization. Various vendors or cloud service providers offer these services to help businesses integrate cloud technologies into their existing IT infrastructure. It would include several tasks such as assessing business requirements, selecting the right cloud platform, configuring and integrating cloud solutions, data migration, and ensuring data security and compliance. It enables organizations to maximize the benefits of cloud computing by reducing costs, improving scalability, increasing agility, and enhancing overall business efficiency. And the services can be customized based on the specific needs of each organization and can range from basic setup and configuration to complex, enterprise-wide cloud migrations.

We offer a seamless migration from on-premises to the cloud. Our team helps create a clear, efficient  & cost-effective business strategy that enables businesses like yours to start their digital transformation journey. Our implementation services would allow clients to achieve their business goals using cloud strategy rapidly.

Our Cloud Implementation Services

Our implementation services enable you to plan, assess the current system, build & validate quality towards deployment and support.

• Cloud App Development: Our team employs modern, scalable, and reliable cloud architecture patterns backed by leading cloud providers, including AWS & Azure, to accelerate the entire app development & deployment lifecycle. Explore our comprehensive cloud app development services to learn how we help optimize – time, budget & resources.
• Automated Release Management: We leverage a mix of automation tools & centralized workflow management capabilities for end-to-end tracking of application development, quality assurance, and production. This approach increases release frequency and progressive delivery strategies, with multiple versions running simultaneously in the pre-production and production stage.
• Application Containerization: Containerization gives your business apps dedicated environments, allowing them to be deployed and run anywhere without needing a machine for each app. We help containerize your application with proper architecture and scalable capabilities to ensure optimal functioning in the long term.
• Infrastructure Architecture Designing: Our certified engineers have extensive experience in cloud infrastructure design, implementation, and maintenance. We design your technology systems, infrastructure & network resources to support current and future business requirements.
• Cloud Managed Services: We combine an extensive experience in cloud technology design & development with industry best practices to streamline key processes and make your critical apps easier to manage. Capture the full benefits of the cloud with speed & agility by offloading all your complex cloud initiatives to our team of experts. Do give this blog a read if you wish to explore how cloud managed services can enhance cloud efficiency.
• Platform Implementation: We provide end-to-end assistance for building, configuring, and executing technical solutions, from making process design changes to facilitating the adoption of private, public, or hybrid PaaS.
• Cloud Data Centers: We are fully equipped to help you plan, design, build, and manage scalable and secure cloud data centers. We will help you right-size your cloud data center’s efficiency, resiliency & capacity.
• Security Optimization: Our certified engineers have years of experience leveraging & managing platform-focused security features for varied cloud environments. We apply industry best practices to safeguard your systems, apps, and data.
• Server Monitoring & Support: Our monitoring tools provide real-time visibility of servers and your entire IT infrastructure. You can also generate capacity planning reports to keep your network running.

How Our Cloud Capabilities Can Help

Listed below are some of our capabilities that enable enterprises to leverage Rishabh’s end-to-end services. Right from tech consulting to deployment and maintenance to support when adopting cloud infrastructure.

• Cloud Readiness Assessment: Our cloud experts evaluate your current IT infrastructure, applications, data, and computing requirements to determine the best-fit cloud for your strategic business needs. Learn essentials of cloud consulting services that help maximize benefits from the cloud & how we at Rishabh Software help.
• Cloud Migration Planning: We help you assess your business objectives, identify hidden opportunities, and create the best migration strategy by leveraging our vast domain expertise and industry knowledge.
• Cloud Migration Strategy: We customize your migration plan to meet the specific needs of your business, be it from legacy app to cloud, or moving apps between cloud platforms. We’re fully experienced in planning and executing complex cloud migrations, whether public, hybrid, or multi-cloud. This read will help you get a better understanding of 6Rs of cloud migration strategy.

There are several business benefits of implementing cloud technology. Here are some of the most important ones:

• Cost Savings: Cloud technology eliminates the need for businesses to purchase and maintain expensive hardware, such as servers and storage devices. Instead, companies can pay for the resources they use on a pay-as-you-go basis, which can result in significant cost savings over time.
• Scalability: With cloud technology, businesses can quickly scale their resources up or down depending on their needs. It allows enterprises to respond promptly to changes in demand without investing in additional hardware.
• Flexibility: Cloud technology allows businesses to access their data and applications from anywhere in the world, as long as they have an internet connection. This makes it easier for companies to support remote work and collaboration.
• Disaster Recovery: Cloud technology can help businesses recover from disasters more quickly and effectively. By storing data and applications in the cloud, companies can soon restore their operations during a natural disaster, cyber attack, or other disruption.
• Security: Cloud technology can provide businesses with greater security than they could achieve alone. Cloud providers invest heavily in security measures and can provide businesses with advanced security features like encryption, data backup, and access controls.

Implementing cloud computing involves several steps that must be taken consecutively to ensure a successful transition to cloud computing. Here are the fundamentals of getting started:

• Assess Your Workflow, Apps & Services: This audit will help you effectively migrate your workflow, applications, and services. Furthermore, it should help you determine where digital innovation can be integrated with production. The document should include a list of cloud-ready applications, workloads, and quantifiable cloud migration benefits.
• Determine Your Business Goals: A cloud strategy begins with defining your company’s goals. It helps determine what business capabilities you need to achieve once you have defined the business objectives.
• Examine Your Infrastructure Architecture: Analyze your existing data landscape, network, and back-end infrastructure to determine how the planned migration will impact your ongoing business operations. This analysis will help you maintain all administrative controls and service-level agreements.
• Asses Gaps & Issues: A thorough fit-gap analysis helps identify issues that may impact your services negatively. An in-depth assessment of cloud investment and architectural planning is essential for secure and reliable implementation. You must also assess the risk and exposure in implementing your cloud strategy.
• Choose a Cloud Environment: Choose between flexible, cost-effective, reliable cloud vendors: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Ensure your data can be moved while ensuring disaster recovery with agnostic cloud data management.
• Create a Transition Roadmap: A thorough examination of the network, infrastructure, and directories will be required. Specify which components will be moved first based on your business priority and migration complexity. Then examine the before and after dependencies. Some of them may need to be configured differently or updated. You will also discover several unrelated dependencies and will need to devise a strategy to decommission the old ones and implement the new ones. These areas will undoubtedly require heavy lifting, so early planning is essential.
• Make Your Applications Cloud-Ready: Lift and Shift (Rehost) and Rearchitect are the most common migration models (Refactor). Rehosting is moving your application from its current location to a cloud environment. Refactoring, on the other hand, entails changing the application architecture to take advantage of cloud capabilities.
• Migrate Your Data: A data migration plan is a critical cloud migration step that can be disastrous if incorrectly attempted. A proper data migration strategy should include auditing the data to avoid unexpected issues, addressing identified problems, establishing controls to ensure data quality, and adequate governance through tracking and monitoring.
• Test & Optimize: Even with extensive testing, problems can arise after the cloud environment is configured to specifications, apps are in the cloud, and data has been populated. A reliable risk-mitigation strategy is to migrate a group of test users to the new environment before a full launch to identify any missed issues during deployment and initial testing.

Various technologies are available for cloud implementation, and the choice of technology depends on the specific requirements of the application or business.

Listed are the commonly used cloud technologies by our team:

Platforms

Data Warehouse & Storage

Data Processing

Databases

DevOps

Software as a Service (SaaS) Platforms

We collaborate strategically with leading cloud service providers to offer AWS Development Services and Azure Consulting Services. Our certified cloud engineers and developers have years of profiled experience and a firm grasp on the latest industry trends to help you build a top-tier cloud infrastructure that ensures long-term business benefits. Our close collaboration with clients distinguishes us.

Look at how we guided clients into the cloud, leveraging the right strategies, technology, and resources.

Case Study: Cloud-Based Data Warehouse System

A US-based F&B & Resort management company wanted to eliminate data silos and efficiently manage disparate data from 20+ sources. It was an outcome of multiple acquisitions with varied data source integration. They tried to unify their business data and merge numerous business applications.

After merging and collaborating data from internal and third-party applications, we developed a scalable Cloud Data Warehouse (DWH) Solution. We began by creating a roadmap for building a data warehouse solution and detailed mapping of element requirements.

Key Deliverables

1) Operational Data Store

• We have developed rules for data validity & deduplication.
• Implemented data pipelines to enable easy access from transactional resources
• Combined data from various apps and IT systems

2) DWH

• Created data marts for data ingestion and processing,
• Mapped integration requirements from third-party apps
• Created an analytical layer and deployed the data warehouse on MS Azure

3) Business Intelligence

• Mapped various KPIs such as expense management, demand forecasting, and customer satisfaction using Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and Power BI.

Benefits Delivered

• Increased workflow efficiency by 50%
• Data quality issues were reduced by 40%.
• On-the-go business understanding with 99% accuracy

Read more about how the developed cloud-based data warehouse system enabled the US-based hospitality giant enabled the US-based hospitality giant to manage disparate data & derive valuable insights as per their need.