Leading public cloud solutions like Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, HP Cloud and Microsoft Azure offer customers an attractive approach to delivering software on next-generation infrastructure and platforms. MomentumSI provides consulting services to help organizations make the move to a public cloud provider. Our offerings focus on four key aspects: Adoption, Architecture, DevOps and Migration.

Adoption

The key to successful adoption of a public cloud is balancing user empowerment with corporate security, compliance and governance. Empowering users to be able to request infrastructure or platforms on-demand in a self-service manner is very appealing. However, steps must be taken to ensure that the corporation isn’t negatively affected. Our adoption services include:

• Identifying the appropriate public cloud providers for specific work loads
• Securely connecting data centers to public clouds (hybrid topologies)
• Defining approval workflows & policies
• Creating standard assets for: images, operating systems, platforms, etc.
• Implementing monitoring, management, provisioning and configuration systems

Architecture and Design

Modern cloud platforms offer advanced functions like Map Reduce and horizontally scalable data stores. The new tools offer great value but only when they’re used appropriately. MomentumSI specializes in the practical application of advanced cloud architectures. Our consultants help organizations to:

• Define new enterprise reference models and reference architectures on both IaaS and PaaS
• Design new application architectures
• Solve problems associated with existing cloud deployments such as poor performance
• Upgrade employee skill sets through ‘paired architecture’ and mentoring

DevOps

Our customers are thrilled with the public clouds, but are quick to note that they’re encountering a new pain — building, deploying and configuring systems on the public cloud. MomentumSI leverages our DevOps consulting services to remove the obstacles encountered in the delivery lifecycle. Our services include:

• Upgrading the processes associated with environment migration (dev, test, stage, prod)
• Utilizing new technologies as the foundation to automate tasks
• Creating templates, scripts and recipes to automate task execution

Migration

Momentum works with organizations to migrate existing applications to a public cloud provider. In some cases, it’s more cost-effective to move the systems without making significant changes to the software (Lift-and-Shift), while in other cases it’s advised to rethink the design to take advantage of the cloud (Lift-and-Rengineer). Our migration services include:

• Determining the migration strategy (lift-and-shift vs. refactor-and-redeploy)
• Making recommendations on architecture and design changes
• Creating a standardized, repeatable process for redeploying the software
• Implementing and testing the changes