SCC have decided to begin migrating some of their on-premise IT systems into the cloud for several reasons that include:
In order to prepare for migration firstly a small selection of lower risk applications have been chosen, these would represent applications that present good value at a lower risk profile, this means the SCC IT team can prepare and learn at lowest risk whilst getting ready for further migrations.
A4S worked closely with the SCC application development team to perform a deep dive on the applications in question, this involved reviewing existing documentation and accessing each system to run the recommended tool sets against to provide the necessary migration reports and assurance.
A4S designs are the culmination of a detailed understanding of our clients needs combined with many thousands of hours of experience delivering and support various hybrid cloud solutions, to that end we often include elements such as:
A4S produced design documents for the applications in scope and included designs for both non-production and production instances, where needed there was consideration for a cloud native approach and also approaches that strategically retained traditional elements of technology.
Our designs take into account the scalability and resilience needed, we also factor in security and will recommend various Microsoft Azure security technologies as best fit for the client need.
A4S want to ensure our clients are secure, we will include security elements in our designs ranging from Azure Front Door, integration into the necessary anti-virus infrastructure, backup & recovery, disaster recovery, data privacy, logging.
We enjoy giving our clients proper visualisations to show their solution performance and usage, this design is no different where we have recommended the use of Azure dashboards that will use graphs, charts and tables to present IT administrators with the necessary information to manage their new cloud based solutions.
Using our online project management portal A4S posted the expected design documents for our client, through here the outputs were reviewed, revised and signed off as needed by the responsive SCC development team members.
“We found working with A4S Cloud Solutions a positive and engaging experience, their team performed a thorough discovery and produced what we regard as a high quality design document that can be relied upon.”
“We appreciate that A4S take into account the use of our new DevTest Azure subscription that they also helped setup and configure to keep non-production costs to a minimum and will ensure our applications function correctly before moving into a live environment.”
Rob Stevenson, SCC IT Development and Solutions Manager
A4S would like to again thank the SCC IT teams for the opportunity to be part of this project and we look forward to further opportunities in the future.