Cloud Migration
Data Army partners with organisations to design and implement cloud migrations that support real business outcomes. From strategy through to execution, we deliver cloud-based data and technology platforms that are scalable, secure and fit for purpose.
OVERVIEW
Before migrating to the cloud, it is critical to select the right approach based on your existing environment, timelines and desired outcomes.
Data Army works with organisations to assess these factors and implement the most appropriate migration strategy, balancing speed, optimisation and long-term value.
The most common migration approaches we deliver include:
• Rehost (or Lift and Shift)
For businesses migrating from traditional on-premise servers and data centres who want to migrate within a short amount of time, rehost may be the right choice.
• Replatform (or Lift, Tinker and Shift)
Similar to rehost, but with optimisation to the environment during migration.
• Repurchase (or Drop and Shop)
Moving to a different product.
• Refactoring / Re-architecting
Re-imagining how data and applications are architected and developed, typically using cloud-native features.
• Retire
Completely retire the solution.
COST COMPARISON EXAMPLE
Switching to the cloud can often remove costly up-front, maintenance and licence fees. The below comparison is a simple example of where cost savings* can be realised when migrating a single database function to the cloud.
ON PREMISE
On premise hardware, running SQL server standard edition with associated licences for 20 users.
$766
per month
Server e.g. Dell EMC
PowerEdge – $6K or $100 pm
(5 yr).
SQL Server 2017 Standard – $1380 or $115 pm (1 yr).
SQL Server 2017 CAL licence – $540 pm for 20 users (1 yr).
Windows Server 2016 – $12.50 pm (1 yr).
Server space, cooling, administration, support, utilities, servicing – $?
IN CLOUD – SQL SERVER STD
WS hosted Relational Database Service with migrated SQL licences and no database administrator costs.
$395
per month
AWS RDS with similar compute/memory (m4.2 xlarge).
Migrate SQL server standard licence across.
On-demand only database instance available 12 hour pd (60 hours pw).
Up to 50gb transfer in and 50gb transfer out per month.
Up to 50gb general purpose
storage per month.
IN CLOUD – MYSQL
AWS hosted Relational Database Service with MySQL and no database administrator costs.
$263
per month
AWS RDS with similar compute/memory (m4.2 xlarge).
MySQL instance.
On-demand only database instance available 12 hour pd (60 hours pw).
Up to 50gb transfer in and 50gb transfer out per month.
Up to 50gb general purpose
storage per month.
*Comparison is an example only and based on published vendor costs at time of writing. Unknown operating costs, compute/memory/usage requirements and business case will impact figures.