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7 Projects to Start Your Cloud Transformation

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s1 Design a consistent stack with the cloud offering ............................................/4

2 Ensure availability and performance ............./5

3 Ensure the security of assets and legal compliance ......................................../6

4 Driving the cloud transition ............................./7

5 Keep the cloud architecture up to date ......../8

6 Control the budget ............................................./9

7 Keep the opportunity to roll back ................/10

8 Your cloud transformation with EasyRun .............................................................../11

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Are you ready to migrate your infrastructure (or part of it) to

the cloud?

You have limited technical resources to drive this

transformation, but still want to focus on your business. Still

many inevitable questions that you need to answer.

What is the best way to tackle this transition to the cloud?

Which cloud services to use to ensure your activity?

How to benefit from the flexibility of the cloud while managing

cost?

Focus on these projects is the key to make your cloud

transformation successful.

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1 Design a consistent stack with the cloud offering

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This is the first question comes up when a cloud project is sketched: do I have the capacity, with my skills, to design a Stack – a technical base – what really takes advantage of the Cloud? Of course, this question proves critical for those who intend to exploit the cloud in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) mode in the present of the native services. But, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), so using virtual servers, changes caused by a transition to the cloud should not be underestimated.

In fact, from a physical server to a cloud server, it changes. A physical server is tailor-made (CPU, RAM, Disk space...) its function is projected. A cloud server has predefined resources configurations and you must choose the right one. A good sense of anticipation is required here, because each resizing can result in a service interruption if the architecture

is not well thought out... In IaaS mode, the mastery of the cloud stack also goes through a mechanism of duplication knowledge or of auto scaling which allows absorbing these loading peaks, but the scope of application must be compatible with this mode of operation.

These topics are of course controlled by an outsourcing provider (Hosting or MSP: Managed Services Provider) like of LINKBYNET. Exercise requires some experience. In the case of a newly created application in the cloud, so without resource consumption history, hosting experts will have to work initially based on assumptions before refining their recommendations.

Mastery of stacks cloud allows you to align IT architecture and business needs.

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2 Ensure availability and performance

Will the monitoring tools used «On Premise» be relevant to cloud assets? Same for all incident resolution procedures. Not necessarily. A new solution joins together with the existing would be considered to avoid silting the monitoring between the Resources «On Premise» and in the Cloud.

A cloud transition is primarily an opportunity to (re) ask key questions: what level of availability do my activities require? And, if this requirement is likely 24h/d, how to answer in a cloud context? Which architecture and what kind of services allows the best ratio of budget / availability?

With a strict internal team, the answer is not easy. Not just because the on-call process often proves to be complex, but also because Internal resources primarily address the commitments means–not results.

This is the main difference with monitoring provided by an outsourcing provider. Backed by multi-tenant resources and tooling for the job, a Cloud hosting specialist commit to the results, with penalties in case of Failure. It also able to work for multilingual organization established on various time zones. On this monitoring side, using an Outsourcer as LINKBYNET thus greatly reduces orga-nizational complexity and contractua-lizes a performance commitment.

Consolidated monitoring and management 24h/d on Cloud in-frastructure and applications.



3 Ensure the security of assets and legal compliance

Switching existing applications in the cloud is not trivial in terms of security and confidentiality. Here, unlike individuals who often subscribe to services without reading the general terms of sale and the privacy charters, a good understanding of the legal impacts is required. From the Patriot Act American to the Europe GDPR, a migration of assets to the cloud implies mastering the impacts of different legislations. And the potential countermeasures (legal and technical) to be activated.

On this subject, the starting square takes the form of both an Data sensitivity evaluation and application vulnerability audit. Unsurprisingly, an application that has vulnerabilities embarks them with it in the cloud... In addition, cloud platforms each have their own management security services and it is necessary to know how to activate and configure them. Everything is available but still needs to be known what and how to use them.

This is a fact, from month to month, these topics become more and more complex, like the «Security Centers» of cloud platforms, which are becoming complex control towers. Rely on a Cyber Security Dedicated team of, as the LINKBYNET Securiview team, is not a luxury to technically and legally align its mechanism on the application challenges.

Control of regulatory issues and solutions.



4 Driving the Cloud transition

The Cloud transformation is a full-fledged project. With multiple components: communicating with business partners throughout the project, characterizing prior developments, choose a migration mode, plan the acceptance of technical and functional items... Suffice to say that releasing time to some system adminis-trators is not enough. The construction site is critical enough to dedicate a resource capable of ensuring this piloting.

And if no resources are available to ensure this? The question arises in a large number of organizations. Good news: this control can be integrated into the accompaniment provided by the Outsourcing provider who has experimented profiles, documented processes and who is tooled to handle the path. Beware, this assumption does not exempt the company from maintaining a decision-making body to which the cloud project manager presents the compromises and arbitrations to be validated.

Your transformation project piloted from A to Z with a single interlocutor.



5 Keep the Cloud architecture up to date

Do you know that in one year these are 600 news features that have been implemented on Azure? Novelties that are accompanied by the depreciation of existing services or new cloud service ratios/cost of use. It is not easy to follow the rhythm to switch from one function to another while benefiting from the best price/performance ratio or even to enjoy increased security.

Ensuring such a watch in the long term requires relying on certified resources

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within a framework program like the Azure P-seller one. Partners such as LINKBYNET associated with this program have access in preview to the roadmap and to the platform evolutions. What to take a few lengths in advance to evaluate these features, decide whether to take advantage of it and, above all, avoid painful downtime (sometimes inevitable when several successive evolutions have not been integrated) or major evolutions too impacting.

Certified Experts driving the performance of your Architectures in the long term.



6 Control the budget

Let’s be honest, if the cloud has kept many of its promises, the readability budget is not necessarily part of it. The billing settings are numerous, complex and the calculators made available by cloud providers ask them for expertise to be used. Consequence, without experience and without expertise, it is difficult to predict the consumption of cloud resources and the resulting bill.

Hence the interest of the flat-rate approach proposed by LINKBYNET through its EasyRun offers. With this model, in which the customer chooses different levels of outsourcing services, most of the risk associated with cloud consumption is handled by the Outsourcer. The budget is therefore mastered while the activation of complementary services is facilitated. For example, using an Application Performance Management (APM) solution

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A package mode without surprises associated with Service Level Agreements.

twice a year can be difficult to negotiate, but, as part of a service of EasyRun, that’s a simple option to activate.



7Keep the opportunity to roll back

How to keep the possibility of changing your mind, in other words, to opt for another cloud provider, another outsourcer or return to the same old «on premise»? Anticipate this scenario with its own means quickly resembles a «project in the project» with so many multiple impacts. In practice, when an organization wishes to initiate such an operation, it is the documentation that most often misses the call. What leads to a phase prior to retro documentation in order to define a reversibility mode (parallel operation for a time period, switches to mode cancels/replaces...).

LINKBYNET for its part maintains throughout the project an operating documentation. The customer finds the details of all procedures that facilitate the recovery of assets.

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The ability to change cloud or provider freely.


8 Your cloud transformation with EasyRun

A close accompaniment ensured by certified experts and in a controlled budgetary framework. LINKBYNET’s EasyRun will offer these 3 qualities which allow you to earn agility with your digital project.

Objective: to empower you to focus on your core business by delegating the deployment of your Cloud Infrastructure (Website, Ecommerce Platform, Applications from your Information System) to a trusted expert partner.

EasyRun works in cooperation with your digital agency and/or your developers to ensure a «time-to-delivery» and, with the major players in the cloud, to ensure availability of your services 24h/7d throughout the year.

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The transformation of your applications and IT architecture

to Microsoft Azure Cloud will be facilitated by using the right

outsourcing partner.

He will scope technology needs according to your business

needs, will realize the transition and the configuration of your

services, while maintaining the availability and performance

level 24h/24 and 7d/7.

The unique EasyRun’s offer value in this context comes

from its approach to flat rate for a millimetre budget while

providing online and phone support thanks to a dedicated

team close to you. It is also the reinsurance from LINKBYNET

Group and its quality of service.

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