Cloud Migration

Public clouds are the technology of today and tomorrow. They’re the future of IT! We pave your way to the public clouds offered by the relevant hyperscalers.

Sebastian Lutz, Teamlead Google for Engineers

What does migration to the public cloud mean?

State-of-the-art IT infrastructure

Highest safety standards

Boundless scalability

Cost transparency

State-of-the-art technologies for your IT infrastructure

The public cloud is the technology that will replace our data centers as we have known and maintained them for years in the long term. Numerous companies in the enterprise segment started building up their resources years ago, and German-speaking SMEs are increasingly following suit.
PCG is your enabler for the digital transformation of your company because there is no digital transformation without the most modern IT infrastructures.

Security on it’s Best!

Nothing beats sophisticated security and governance standards in your corporate IT. In the public cloud, you benefit from the highest standards without having to use your own resources.
Hyperscalers gather three to four hundred teams in their security hubs and take care of the security standards of your public cloud environment from a central location.
Use your teams for projects tha move you forward as a company and leave the security to the hyperscalers.

Boundless

Scalability is the decisive argument for many companies when it comes to the public cloud.
In a nutshell, scalability means that you can adapt your public cloud environment to your requirements at any time and scale up or down with little effort.
Your demand increases, the platform scales up. Demand goes down, the platform follows. Our expert tip: Supplement scalability with automation and take care of the really important things.

Only pay for what you really use

Pay-per-use is the keyword when it comes to cost transparency in your public cloud environment.
You only pay for what you have actually and verifiably used in terms of computing power, storage, network and services. What's more, hyperscalers bill on a monthly basis, so nothing stands in the way of simple planning.

We pave the way for your successful public cloud journey!

The entry into the public cloud

Strategy, Preparation & Planning

Your migration to the public cloud

Operation & optimization of your public cloud

Choose your hyperscaler

Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are the public cloud giants. What we want is the same as what you want – to get the best of everything your chosen public cloud has to offer

Count on PCG

A relationship with the right public cloud partner is a bit like a marriage – you need to know and trust each other and support each other at all times.

Develop a strategy

Public clouds are the future of your IT. Drawing on experience gained from over 1,000 projects, we define the relevant milestones and develop a productive strategy together with you.

Define resources

What do you need for your public cloud success? We support you with everything you want to take care of yourself with your team. For everything else, you can depend on our skills

Business case

What does your public cloud project look like? We find that out by defining the business case and work towards your success productively

Costs and budget

The case is finalized, so how much will everything cost? We use analyses and methodologies to evaluate not only your project costs, but also the budget needed for your target architecture

Resources: essential

What skills do you have at your company already? What skills do you still need? For these questions, you need not only a project plan, but also a tailor-made professional development plan

Kickoff and workshops

Even though we’re mainly at home in public clouds, we also believe that communication is a key element of your success. We bring along everyone on the journey with regular results workshops and project kickoff events

Develop the architecture

Our experts develop your architecture tailor-made to your business case for the public cloud. When it’s ready, it gets put into practice.

Share knowledge

Our motto is that knowledge duplicates when you share it. And this is a motto we apply internally and externally, including within your team. We enable an efficient exchange of skills.

Perform the migration

Your target architecture gets developed and is continuously tested and optimized. Applying our infrastructure-as-code approach, we migrate using the most modern technology possible.

Costs in check

While we are passionate about public clouds, we also know that excellent project management is decisive at the end of the day. We keep your costs in check at all times.

Teamwork

The only things we want are the things you want. You and your team can take on as much of the public cloud operations as you want, then depend on our skills for everything else.

Managed cloud operations

Don’t have time to manage your public cloud operations yourself? Not a problem. With our managed services, you get exactly the support you need.

Automation

We think that “next generation” means future-ready operations featuring the latest technologies. They are characterized by a high degree of automation, which you should profit from as well.

Personal contact

You can contact our English and German-speaking managed service experts personally and directly by phone, by email, or through our support ticket system.

Excellent strategies for your migration to a public cloud

Repurchase strategy

One purchase with countless advantages. Profit from the added value of a public cloud and take direct advantage of software as a service.

As this migration strategy’s name suggests, it involves buying a new product where you switch from a traditional license to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. For example, you can migrate your local CRM system to a supplier such as Salesforce, Hubspot, or others. Buy yourself a new product that is then operated for you on demand in the cloud.

Relocate migration

The easy way to migrate your VMware applications to a public cloud.

Migrations based on the relocate model shift infrastructure to a public cloud without the need to buy new hardware, rewrite applications, or modify your existing processes. It might sound complicated, but you’ll notice it all works just like “lift & shift.” The only difference is that it’s solely for VMware applications.

Retire strategy

Shut down the unneeded elements of your IT tactically and concentrate on your key infrastructure.

Retiring is another strategy in your arsenal for a public cloud migration. Similar to the retain strategy, it’s a more passive form of migration. It involves you shutting down applications or removing them because they will no longer be needed in your infrastructure.

Rearchitect or refactor

Capitalize on the added value of a public cloud and count on limitless scalability, maximum security, and fully transparent costs.

With this migration strategy, you move an application or modify the architecture by drawing on the cloud-native added value of the new environment. In doing this, you improve agility, performance, and scalability. Migrating an operating system or database to a public cloud is a simple example of it.

Replatform migration

A new public cloud platform means new opportunities for your application’s success!

Often called a “lift & reshape” strategy, it refers to the migration of an application to the cloud that involves performing an optimization simultaneously. The goal is to leverage the benefits of the newly obtained cloud functions for the application itself.

Rehost – “lift & shift” migration

Take off to a public cloud without making any changes to your application or workload. It’s the simplest way to accomplish a migration.

“Lift & shift” is one of the most well-known models for migration, which can mainly be attributed to the rapid time it takes to complete. Rehosting moves your application to the public cloud without making any sort of changes. You gain the advantages of a cloud environment, such as transparent costs and scalability, without making any optimizations of your application itself.

What you should definitely consider before migrating to the public cloud

#1 Inventory

Before really getting down to business with migration, it is important to know your existing environment in detail. An inventory of your current applications and data will be conducted.
However, the objective here is not only to determine the status quo, but rather to understand which of your workloads should migrate to the cloud.

Not all workloads can or need to migrate to the public cloud per se, so to save costs, time and effort it's important to select in advance.

#2 Migration & operating costs

A proven model for cost assessment is the analysis of total cost of ownership. In simple terms, this compares the existing operating costs of the selected workloads with the potential costs of the workloads in the cloud.

In addition, migration costs are calculated and included in the process. If the cloud is the cheaper model, you also get a “break-even point”.

It is also worth looking into the future here. How will the outlined public cloud environment have to be operated in the future, and what costs will be incurred with different operating methods?

#3 Assign responsibility

Migration consists of preparation, planning and implementation, followed by the operation of the public cloud environment. Many steps require skills and resources.

Which steps you implement with your own team and which you hand over to PCG as your migration partner is completely up to you. We support you with our skills where you see the need.

In order to carry out this division seamlessly during the migration, one of the central points of preparation is to assign internal and external responsibilities.

#4 Select hyperscaler

Depending on the company's target definition and the workloads to be migrated, it is also necessary to find a suitable public cloud environment. In the public cloud sector, there are three major hyperscalers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

They provide the basic components of a public cloud, consisting of virtual resources such as computing power, storage and network via a freely accessible platform.

The easiest way to find out which cloud environment best suits your needs and requirements is to conduct a cloud assessment.

Inventory of your IT

Know & understand costs

Assign responsibility

Select hyperscaler

As excellent cloud experts, we drive digitization forward in your company. Contact us!

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89081 Ulm
Germany
info@publiccloudgroup.com
+49-731-7255-7400

Your path to the public cloud: the best you can expect from your migration

Your path to the public cloud: the best you can expect from your migration

Public clouds are the technology of today and tomorrow. They’re the future of IT! We pave your way to the public clouds offered by the relevant hyperscalers.

What does migration to the public cloud mean?

State-of-the-art IT infrastructure

Highest safety standards

Boundless scalability

Cost transparency

State-of-the-art technologies for your IT infrastructure

Security on it’s Best!

Boundless

Only pay for what you really use

We pave the way for your successful public cloud journey!

The entry into the public cloud

Strategy, Preparation & Planning

Your migration to the public cloud

Operation & optimization of your public cloud

Choose your hyperscaler

Count on PCG

Develop a strategy

Define resources

Business case

Costs and budget

Resources: essential

Kickoff and workshops

Develop the architecture

Share knowledge

Perform the migration

Costs in check

Teamwork

Managed cloud operations

Automation

Personal contact

Excellent strategies for your migration to a public cloud

Repurchase strategy

Relocate migration

Retire strategy

Rearchitect or refactor

Replatform migration

Rehost – “lift & shift” migration

What you should definitely consider before migrating to the public cloud

#1 Inventory

#2 Migration & operating costs

#3 Assign responsibility

#4 Select hyperscaler

Inventory of your IT

Know & understand costs

Assign responsibility

Select hyperscaler

As excellent cloud experts, we drive digitization forward in your company. Contact us!

Public Cloud Group GmbH

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