DESIGN and TRANSITION

Make your digital transformation seamless when you rely on our world-class design and transition team.

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Your partner for deploying agile technology

Our Design and Transition experts help you easily plan and implement next-gen technology without disrupting your business. Get a complete assessment of your environment and reduce migration risk with little to no IT resources of your own.

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Benefits

Checklist

Future-proof your IT architecture

Get target-state designs that leverage a variety of platforms for complex, hybrid solutions—from colocation to cloud to managed hosting—for use now or for future expansion or transformation.

Future-proof your IT architecture

Get target-state designs that leverage a variety of platforms for complex, hybrid solutions—from colocation to cloud to managed hosting—for use now or for future expansion or transformation.

Reports

Minimise risk and maximise ROI

Reduce downtime and production issues with industry best practices and single-vendor convenience. Our proven processes make migration seamless and cost-effective.

Minimise risk and maximise ROI

Reduce downtime and production issues with industry best practices and single-vendor convenience. Our proven processes make migration seamless and cost-effective.

Managed Services IT-Consulting Services

Bridge resource and skills gaps

From start to finish, dedicated subject matter experts provide hands-on experience for any IT discipline and build roadmaps and recommendations—even in complex and heterogeneous environments.

Bridge resource and skills gaps

From start to finish, dedicated subject matter experts provide hands-on experience for any IT discipline and build roadmaps and recommendations—even in complex and heterogeneous environments.

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Features and Specifications

  • Empirical data collection through use of automated tools, inventory compilation, workshops and physical audits
  • Consolidation of multiple data sources for customer information
  • Workshop sessions with customer subject matter experts

  • Data normalisation for application, database and dependency information
  • Infrastructure correlation for compute, storage, network and security
  • Considerations for optimisation and consolidation
  • Assessment of physical environmental needs

  • Logical design documentation for compute, storage, network and security
  • Designs for physical and colocation power, space and cooling
  • Firewall and load balancer translation guide
  • Configuration documentation for infrastructure to be implemented (for Lumen-only designs)

  • Migration strategy documentation for application classifications
  • Application grouping schedule based on dependency and business requirements
  • Integration across all teams and domains, facilitated by experienced technical leads
  • Milestone project plans to frame-up the execution

  • Task-level application migration planning
  • Naming of resource assignments to tasks
  • Documentation of timing and dependencies for technical actions
  • Creation of detailed project plan

  • Custom and complex design implementation management
  • Order processing per migration plan
  • Network implementation
  • Connectivity validation
  • Server stand-up
  • User access setup
  • Storage allocation
  • Application of documented configurations
  • Preparation for application migrations

  • Hands-on keyboard for greenfield and logical installs (web, applications, database)
  • Server-based migration transfers (V2V, P2V, P2P)
  • Database export and import
  • Deployment of firewall and load balancer rules
  • Data migrations (replication, sync, file transfers, portable storage)
  • Trialling and validation
  • Go-live and cutover

  • Source and target site readiness audits
  • Special handling arrangements (site and/or packing requirements)
  • From-To mapping validation
  • Logistics planning in conjunction with customer and required third parties
  • Coordination and management of physical labour and transport
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