Cloud consulting

with noventum consulting

For many years, cloud computing has shaped the modern IT infrastructure of companies and revolutionized the way we work every day. When used correctly, cloud computing is flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient, and more and more companies are switching their IT operations to it. However, the process of migrating a company's IT to the cloud is not trivial and can be very complex.

In-depth expertise in the fields of cloud architecture and IT migration is necessary in order to assess your company's cloud readiness.

With our “Cloud Transition & Transformation” solution, we support our customers in the merger and harmonization as well as the physical relocation of IT production infrastructures as part of integration and relocation projects.

Carefully planned – following these steps

The process of moving your IT to the cloud proceeds as follows

Analysis of IT infrastructures 

Evaluation of target systems 

Architecture of the target landscape 

Developing a roadmap for the transition to the cloud

Consolidation management

Technical and content migration

Overview of the old environments

We support you in identifying the best cloud providers, assessing security risks, and finding appropriate solutions that are important for a successful cloud migration.

Our consultants not only bring experience in large migration projects to the table, but also expertise from sourcing and cloud projects, especially when it comes to defining target environments. The requirements of your business are at the forefront, and the target architecture is tailored to them.

This includes reviewing your own internal IT, integrating additional service providers, partners, and data centers, and migrating applications, services, or entire infrastructures to the cloud. 

Data center relocations in high-availability environments in particular pose enormous challenges for customers in terms of maintaining IT operations. noventum has been able to build up a wealth of expertise in this area thanks to the large number of projects it has carried out and provides its customers with sound process models.

Taking a strategic approach to cloud transition and transformation

Our approach

Transition and transformation

Migrating your IT from a local environment to a cloud-based platform affects data, applications, and infrastructure alike. A deep understanding of cloud architecture and a well-thought-out approach are important prerequisites for success.

Our cloud architects design cloud-based systems for you that are performance-optimized, scalable, and secure. We support you in selecting the right cloud services and ensure that your business processes are optimally supported through the expert implementation of your cloud infrastructure.

Whether it's a technical restructuring, the consolidation or division of functions in IT operations, the technological challenge of a system takeover, or a complete relocation of the data center: IT change processes are a success with our specialized consultants. noventum has extensive experience in large migration projects. For more than 25 years, noventum consultants have been familiar with the common changes in data center operations.

From the large number of demanding transition and transformation projects, noventum consultants have developed a generalized process model that provides a perfect template for every project plan in this environment.

I. The cloud strategy in five steps

A cloud strategy is more than just a technical matter. Cloud migrations influence a company's IT strategy, business strategy, and personnel planning. Before any planning and implementation, it is important to consider the purpose and framework data of a cloud migration, the technical and personnel requirements, and the legal requirements. Accordingly, in addition to IT management, senior management, human resources management, and, if necessary, business development should also be involved in strategy development.

We work with you to develop your cloud strategy in the following 5 steps:

Creating a target vision
Performing a readiness check
Identifying options for action
Developing the cloud roadmap
Establishing guidelines for the cloud

Upon closer inspection, you will realize that you have already answered many questions about your future cloud strategy. Others are only now arising.
The noventum consultants are experts in cloud strategy development and can provide ideal support for your project thanks to the large number of cloud strategy developments they have carried out and their extensive knowledge of cloud provider solutions.

II. Concepts for the path to the cloud

Every business reality requires overviews to ensure that nothing important is forgotten in everyday practice. This rule applies even more so when major changes are imminent. Cloud-based IT requires a role and responsibility concept that enables the transition and ensures ongoing operations.

For your migration to the world of cloud computing, noventum consultants have prepared a comprehensive overview of the following four concept areas:

Organizational concepts
Operational concepts
Migration concepts
Security concepts

Once you have developed these concepts for your cloud strategy, you will be ideally prepared for the next steps and will not have to make any unforeseen adjustments during the ongoing migration, as you will have considered the important conceptual issues at the right time.

III. Preparing business processes for the cloud

The individuality of a company is reflected in the various processes that determine its day-to-day business. These are often very specific and have developed over time. Everything fits together perfectly, but must still be viewed critically if the move to the cloud and subsequent stable operation in the hybrid cloud are to be successful.

After a successful migration, the cloud provider becomes a new “colleague” at the table, and new roles within your own company must be defined and learned. Quality, security, and compliance requirements urgently need to be taken into account. Practical operations are also affected by cloud migration. Demand, problem, and change processes must be reviewed and adapted. Depending on the size of the company, the service structure of cloud providers will also influence these everyday IT standards to a greater or lesser extent in the future.

The noventum PROCESSES process model focuses on this important planning step.

IV. Cloud migration and transformation: a supreme discipline, not only for IT experts

There are many reasons for moving to a hybrid cloud: upcoming construction of a new data center, relocation of individual workloads due to elasticity (cloud outburst), expansion of your own cloud through disaster recovery scenarios, outsourcing to a managed service provider, merging with other companies, or optimizing the existing cost structure through serverless computing, for example.

Now, relocation experts are in demand, as they are also used in IT sourcing and data center relocations. Migrating individual systems in the context of complex processes without losing sight of ongoing operations is a challenging task. Empowering new teams in new roles for the specific work and supporting them until a smooth new routine is established is an important part of future everyday cloud operations.

Drawing on more than 25 years of experience as consultants for IT sourcing, data center relocations, IT operations, and the transformation of complex IT systems, noventum consultants have developed a phased approach.

The challenging final step is clearly presented in five planning steps:

Need for action
Transformation concept
Development of target objects
Transformation
Regular operation

The scope of our consulting services ranges from analyzing IT infrastructures to managing consolidation, evaluating target systems, designing the target landscape, and migrating and winding down legacy environments.

Dr. Frank Gutberlet

Which cloud service providers and cloud solutions
are the right ones?

GO TO THE CLOUD WITH MICROSOFT AZURE

Microsoft is a global leader in office applications and server technology and offers the appropriate infrastructure for businesses with its Azure cloud platform. Microsoft provides servers, storage, network technologies, and software from the cloud from a single source, offering a complete alternative to local solutions.

Whether with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Software as a Service (SaaS), Azure is one of the leading providers.

More about Azure Cloud

Thanks to flexible licensing and usage costs for local and cloud-based applications, the Microsoft Cloud is often an attractive option from a financial perspective.

Not least because of the widespread use of Microsoft standard software in the area of office applications and server technology, many companies looking for a provider turn their attention to Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform.

AZURE CLOUD MIGRATION WITH NOVENTUM

With an ever-growing range of cloud computing services that help companies meet their business challenges, Azure gives you the ability to build, manage, and deploy applications using your preferred tools and frameworks.

noventum cloud consultants have years of experience installing and operating Microsoft cloud applications and will accompany you on your journey to the Azure cloud.

noventum cloud consulting means that our consultants form a team with your employees, while we take responsibility and leadership for planning, migration, and commissioning. Our consultants have extensive experience, are trained and certified as project managers, and bring proven methods and templates for migration from your data center to the cloud.

Our cloud experts carry out the “Cloud Readiness Check” with you and use it to derive the procedure for setting up resources in the cloud.

The noventum cloud process model ensures a smooth transition to the cloud.

GET STARTED WITH THE AWS CLOUD

AWS, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has been setting the standard for public cloud computing services as the market leader for years. With a focus on marketing storage volume, AWS is by far the largest provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

But AWS is also an all-round provider in the market for other common services such as Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). With Amazon Web Services, companies can move significant parts of their IT to the cloud and thus regain focus on their core business.

More about the AWS Cloud

Cloud or no cloud—for many companies, that is no longer the question. However, some IT managers have not yet decided which path to take to the cloud.

AWS CLOUD MIGRATION WITH NOVENTUM

The AWS Cloud offers countless possibilities—noventum's cloud consultants know their stuff and will work with you to design the right solution.

Companies like to use the public cloud to easily and quickly put together the technical basis for developing individual applications. As an AWS customer, you can do this without purchasing your own product licenses or server space. To put it in a nutshell: developers can book the technical basis for their work ad hoc with the individually tailored and robust AWS IT infrastructure. Self-service makes AWS a fast-acting tool.

Even with extreme fluctuations in the use of IT systems, such as shop systems or content management systems, it is becoming increasingly common to move to the cloud. From this perspective, the flexibly scalable AWS booking is also a real financial advantage. You pay for what you use. Companies often also secure overload peaks in their private clouds by using a public cloud such as AWS.

TAKING A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO THE CLOUD

Cloud consulting with noventum means: We plan together, and we are also your partner for technical migration and commissioning. Our consultants are experienced, trained, and certified project managers who use proven methods and templates for migration from your data center to the cloud.

Of course, this also applies to your “green field” applications. Our AWS experts support you with the “Cloud Readiness Check” and the resulting approach to building resources in the cloud.

With the noventum cloud process model, you are taking the safe path to the cloud.

Weg in die Cloud.

Harald Hau

Geschäftsführer

+352 621 307 537

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+352 621 307 537

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