Cloud migration services, strategy, and optimization

Experienced cloud consultants optimize, migrate, and create cloud strategies with predictable costs, improved security, reliability, and agility.

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Professional Services - Cloud Strategy and Migration
OVERVIEW
Enable scalable, secure clouds aligned with financial and operational business needs

A common challenge for organizations is having a sufficiently staffed cloud team experienced in cloud strategy, design, security, transformation, and migrations. To minimize risk, you need an experienced team to reduce project delays, unexpected costs, and unnecessary disruptions.

Today’s cloud challenges:
  • Lack of a clear cloud roadmap and strategy to achieve the desired outcomes
  • Cloud initiatives that don’t deliver objectives for predictable costs, improved security, reliability, scalability, and agility.
  • Lack of cloud migration expertise increases downtime risk, missed dependencies, and performance issues
  • Unpredictable or out-of-control public cloud costs
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Optimal, strategic workload placement decisions
Successful cloud environments begin with a comprehensive approach to workload placement.
Faster and more successful cloud transformations
A well-developed cloud strategy with a clear roadmap and reliable timelines to your desired future state.
Faster, low-risk cloud migrations
Understanding dependencies, thorough planning, testing, cutover, and validation by a team that executes cloud migrations every day.
New cost efficiencies
Right-fit cloud solutions yield efficiencies in managing and administering your cloud costs and environments.
Meet business requirements with cloud-native benefits
Effectively utilize cloud native features to increase scalability, agility, and reliability.
Built-in modern cloud security
Increase cloud security using today’s best practices across public and private cloud environments.
SERVICES
Cloud strategy and investment optimizations maximize cloud ROI
Cloud Strategy
Create your cloud journey roadmap

Use a future-state vision, cloud strategy, and an executable roadmap aligned to financial and operational business needs. Identify potential challenges and assess workload portability to cloud environments. Choose the right cloud, for the right reason.

  • Optimal workload placements
  • Documented cloud strategy
  • Cloud transformation roadmaps
  • Expert guidance and discovery for reduced risk
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  • Cloud Readiness Assessment
    Understand if and when your workloads are ready to move to a cloud, and to which clouds. Receive an analysis of what preparation is needed before a migration to maximize the value and reduce the costs of your chosen cloud platform.
  • Cloud Readiness Strategy and Planning
    Accelerate cloud adoption with a prioritized, business‑aligned readiness plan. Turn readiness into a clear roadmap that aligns cloud choices with workloads and business goals.
  • Cloud Modernization
    Maximize cloud ROI with cloud modernization strategy, planning, and implementation aligned with financial and operational business needs. Includes private and public cloud, PaaS, and SaaS. 
  • Multi-cloud Architecture and Connectivity
    Maximize modern cloud benefits with a tailored design and build that delivers highly resilient, secure, and performant multi-cloud networks with streamlined data flow, simplified management, and compliance.
Cloud Connectivity

Solve for reliability and performance with cloud connectivity that delivers resiliency and security for your most critical applications.

We create future-ready, modern networks that meet the demands of multi-cloud, multi-site, and edge computing. Network architecture, support, and ongoing operations are based on proven best practices and industry standards. 

  • Optimized for reliability, resiliency, performance, and security
  • Reduce cloud security risks
  • Quick security gap identification and remediations
  • Strategic modernizations and modern technologies
  • Rely on experienced and highly certified network experts to design, build, and operate your critical networks
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  • Cloud fabric design, deploy, and maintain
    Obtain secure, high-performance, and resilient cloud connectivity between Flexential environments and major cloud service providers (CSPs). Includes ongoing maintenance, optimizations, and expert support.
  • Network edge maintenance & optimization 
    Provides continuous network edge operations that reduce incidents and improve performance, security, and scalability. For organizations with distributed, complex, or hybrid infrastructure landscapes. 
Low-risk Cloud Migrations
Fast, low-downtime migrations

Our cloud migration experts execute migrations with reduced risk and minimal downtime to accelerate your cloud strategy progress. Leverage our experienced team and our proven migration methodology to uncover dependencies and address potential challenges. Receive a comprehensive plan for migration execution that includes testing, validation, and cutover.

  • Discovery and dependency identification
  • Documented migration strategy
  • Detailed migration procedures and test plans
  • Robust validation and UAT before cutover
  • Realize transformation opportunities during migration
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  • Cloud migration strategy and planning
    Accelerate minimal downtime cloud migrations with a  documented migration strategy and detailed plans for migrating workloads in or out of your chosen platform. Available for migrations to and from cloud and on-premises, colo, private, or public cloud. 
  • Cloud migration implementation
    Fast, successful migrations. 
    Our expert cloud migration teams execute fast, minimal downtime migrations based on the migration strategy and plan. All migration activities are performed by a highly experienced and specialized Flexential migration team. Available on-premises, colo, private, or public cloud.
FinOps for Public Cloud
Reduce and control public cloud costs

We implement and manage best-practice FinOps methodologies to improve your public cloud ROI. Receive prioritized cost optimization recommendations for controlling and reducing costs. Implement processes and governance for improved collaboration, budgeting, and forecasting.

  • Reduces cloud spend, or you may execute a no-penalty service cancellation
  • Avoid runaway cloud costs
  • Eliminate costs for unneeded services
  • Improve cloud cost predictability, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
  • Align cost optimizations to business and technical requirements
  • Improve cross-functional collaboration and governance
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  • FinOps
    Reduce public cloud spend and improve budget predictability with expert FinOps.
    Our FinOps experts implement industry-proven processes and governance for improved collaboration, budgeting, and forecasting. You’ll receive prioritized cost optimization recommendations for controlling and reducing costs.
    We are so confident that our team can help you decrease your cloud costs, that if we can’t provide a viable cost reduction recommendation within 90 days, you may cancel the remainder of the service with no penalty. 
    We’re that confident.

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