Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Moving to cloud isn’t a matter of why, but a matter of when and how. Cloud promises speed, agility, and cost savings—but realizing the full value of cloud requires solving difficult challenges such as data gravity, security, compliance with regulations, cost management, and the need for organizational change. AVCS's hybrid cloud solutions can help your business navigate cloud complexities and speed your digital transformation through a proven methodology for transforming people, processes, and technology.

Put each of your applications in its ideal environment while creating a seamless experience between public and private infrastructure. Maximize ease and agility while maintaining proper control.

Make a business case, get stakeholders on board, and tackle people and process issues along with modernizing your technology and making a plan for your applications.

Integrate your private infrastructure with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and other public cloud solutions to create an enterprise-ready hybrid cloud.

Place each application where it can run most efficiently to maximize savings gained from cloud. Get hybrid cloud as a service with AVCS Green Lake and pay only for what you consume.

Apps that can easily move to the cloud already have. Meanwhile, two out of every three apps remain on-premises due to issues such as data gravity, sovereignty, compliance, cost, and interdependencies with other systems. This leaves enterprises caught in the middle of old and new, struggling to reach their transformation goals within a complex dual IT operating environment.

From getting your stakeholders on board with a high-level hybrid cloud strategy to resolving workload and infrastructure complexities and implementing new processes, AVCS will help you transform to a truly cloud-native framework. Our process includes:

There are many complexities inherent in migrating applications to the cloud. Even simple lift-and-shift projects can go wrong when things like application dependencies, outage windows, testing plans, critical vendor support, and networking checks go unaccounted for. For more complex migrations, common pitfalls to avoid include.

• Neglecting to get key stakeholders involved from the beginning: Without adequate planning and buy-in involving all affected stakeholder groups, projects can quickly get derailed. Adding to this, if the ultimate business value of moving to cloud hasn’t been widely accepted, small setbacks can easily put the entire project in jeopardy. Not taking the time to carefully evaluate how each of your applications should be dealt with: The “6R” framework calls for each application to be vetted against a set of considerations that will allow you to determine whether to “retire, retain, repurchase, rehost, replatform, or refactor.” Not doing so may result in apps that aren’t optimized for their environments and are costly to run. Failing to address the “people and process” side of the equation: Applications are only one part of any move to the cloud, and potentially not the most difficult to deal with. Cloud threatens the status quo, and without reskilling your team and establishing new processes, your efforts to move to a truly cloud-first paradigm are likely destined to fail.