Datacenter
Modernization on
Google Cloud Platform
(GCP) Services
Leverage intelligent automation to migrate and modernize mission-critical infra, apps, workloads, and data on Google cloud at zero loss
Brace for Innovative Outcomes: Transform from On-prem to Cloud on the Intelligent Google Cloud
Agility and renovation is the new enterprise currency to success. In an ever evolving business world, firms need to stay upgraded and embrace the best of IT technologies to adequately function, collaborate, and deliver across departments and regions. Legacy systems suffer from unbearable redundancies, security loopholes, and expense traps. It’s time to lay all those behind and adopt a modernized approach, end-to-end.
Striking at the Core: Modernizing Critical Assets
On-prem datacenters, the heart of enterprise IT operations, have become archaic in the present context, replaced by virtual, cloud-powered, and intelligent datacenters. With Google Cloud and its automation, data intelligent capabilities at the backend, firms can brace for enhanced scalability, agility, and availability of their workloads.
What’s best; migrate and modernize the entire IT stack from a single source of truth, on the cloud. Adopt virtualized infra, cloud-delivered platforms and libraries, containerized applications, smart databases with analytical intelligence, and ultra-fast workloads with ease. As the world’s leading application-focused, automation-driven cloud managed service provider, CloudEngin is well poised to realize your datacenter modernization journey on Google Cloud.
Leverage the fail-proof Migration Factory approach to transition assets at zero loss, implement advanced technologies and tools to revamp core assets and unleash the true value of cloud, enhance cybersecurity standards with predictive threat maintenance, and unlock innovative outcomes with seamlessly deployed hyperautomation, data intelligence solutions. CloudEngin specialized Center of Excellence for SAP and Anthos on Google Cloud allows enterprises to transform their business applications and extend the power of cloud to anywhere the enterprise is in need.
Onboard the CloudEngin - Google Cloud power duo to bolster your datacenter modernization journey on cloud
End-to-end Intelligent Datacenter Modernization Services on GCP by CloudEngin
Being a global leader in offering end-to-end application-focused cloud managed services and a Google Cloud partner, CloudEngin arms enterprises with the industry-leading Cloud Adoption Framework to help achieve a hassle-free, smooth, zero loss, and cost-effective Google Cloud journey. To our credit, CloudEngin has delivered 2500+ transformation stories across 29 nations.
To begin with, CloudEngin assists enterprises in gaining an in-depth understanding of their cloud requirements duly aligned with business objectives. This is followed up with a tailored GCP modernization blueprint for the firm’s datacenter and IT assets leveraging a model of choice – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS on private-public-hybrid cloud architecture. Move your SAP workloads, non-SAP systems, mission-critical infra, microservices, heterogeneous large-scale environments seamlessly to Google Cloud.
With the cutting-edge automation solutions, AIOps- powered managed services, enterprises can benefit from a fully secure, and compliant modernization experience. CloudEngin also provides 24/7 support to make sure that the enterprises carry out business as usual without any disruption.
Below is an in-depth account of CloudEngin DC modernization on GCP services portfolio:
As part of the Google Migration Advisory, Assessment, and Implementation Services, CloudEngin provides secure, scalable and cost-effective designs for enterprise workloads (infra, application, data, and workplace). With our CloudOps services, we provide enterprises with a custom-made cloud strategy which is designed based on the Cloud Adoption Framework. We help with implementation of the cloud infra promising scalability, sustainability, security, reproducibility, and ROI sensitivity as the primary focus points.
Cloud Infra Setup and Management
CloudEngin provides a secure and automated infra setup. With CloudEngin Unified Cloud Management Portal, you can enable the creation of an automated on-demand new environment and On-click infra set up and tear down. As part of the IT modernization, CloudEngin provides the top class services with a team of certifies experts at CloudEngin and Google teams across the world.
In alignment with the Google Modernization best practices, Cloud Adoption Frameworks (CAF) from CloudEngin helps enterprises with a tailor-made and in-detail report that covers infrastructure, application, and data migration assessment. The CloudEngin Migration factory is the best platform for enterprises to implement the perfect and cost-effective strategy for their complex and mission-critical workloads. It includes re-host, refactor, re-architect, re-build, replace options using Google services. The CloudEngin Migration factory implements the assembly line approach which provides a step-by-step procedure to ensure the migration and transformation are safe and secure. Here are some of the key steps we follow:
- Infrastructure as-Is analysis report
- Datacenter modernization and consolidation plan with TCO Comparison
- Building Blocks and Estimates
- Migration Approach and Plan
- Security and Compliance gap analysis and re-mapping for to be the state
- Business continuity and Business Process gap analysis and mitigation plan (IT Infra related only)
- Proof of concepts on Google (PoC)
- Infrastructure and security services – Deployment Plan
- Zero Friction Managed Service SOW and SOP document (including commercials)
- Project Management and Governance
- IT Staff Training
- Assessment Report
- Migration Strategy, Approach & Timelines
- Security Tools Mapping
- Gap Mitigation Plan
- Google Estimates
- Migration Estimates
- Landing Zone Readiness & Migration of Workload (Lift and Shift)
As you all know most of the large enterprises and SMB’s depend on the SAP ERP systems for their core business functionalities. However, the commonly used supporting infra are costly with non-agile resources which creates limitations to benefit from the new cutting-edge SAP solutions such as S/4 HANA. Moving your workloads to the cloud means getting benefited from the unparalleled efficiency and flexibility with zero downtime. Here is the list of deliverables CloudEngin helps with clients’ journey of migrating their SAP workloads to Azure.
- SAP Landscape Assessment Report
- SAP to be landscape on Azure blueprint
- SAP landscape migration strategy, approach, and timelines
- Gap Mitigation Plan
- Security Tool Mapping
- Google Estimates
- SAP Landscape Migration Estimates
- Landing Zone Readiness Plan
With enterprises looking for options to move from traditional warehouses and expand their business operations has created a growing demand for cloud platforms across the globe. Be it a public, private or hybrid cloud enterprises are willing to invest and move their critical workloads and applications to the cloud. And, this is only going to increase in the coming years.
As enterprises are embracing cloud and expanding their horizons, they are looking beyond the lift-and-shift to move into the virtual world. The enterprises are willing to refactor and rebuild directly in the cloud. Even though the enterprises will continue to keep their mission-critical workloads on-premises, the enterprise data and workflows will be taken care of by cloud solutions.
With CloudEngin automated solutions, enterprises can enable database auditing, capacity management to platform-supported disruption management, upgrading, and patching. This helps in making the complex and voluminous migrations secure and fail-proof with data loss and downtime.
With CloudEngin intelligent managed services automation, we ensure that the enterprises mission-critical workloads are secure end-to-end. The zero downtimes, complete data and infra security is cost-effective and the automation of any repeatable and routine tasks will ensure that no resources are wasted.
- Remote Monitoring and Management
- Professional Service Automation
- Auto Application Start Automation
- Auto Resolution
- Health Checks, Log Compilation, and Alerting
- Replication Status Checks
- Virtual Patching
- Secure and Cost-optimized CloudOps
- Automated Backup and Recovery
CloudEngin Application Modernization on GCP assists enterprises in end-to-end implementation monitoring and maintaining their applications. The CloudEngin expertise combined with wide range of Google Cloud flexible and secure services will be the perfect solution for enterprises to align their business goals with the future. As part of the application modernization, we use different approaches and techniques which includes the following:
Remove: Filter out existing datacenter workloads, apps that are redundant and doesn’t contribute significantly to modern operations. Such redundancies could lead to unnecessary cloud wastage and cloud sprawl, shooting up expenses if not addressed adequately.
Retain: Retain mission-critical on-prem systems, workloads, resources that are working diligently and cannot function effectively on the adopted cloud ecosystem. This ensures the deployment of a hybrid architecture that works best in all scenarios.
Replatform: Replatform key assets and applications that must be migrated to the cloud ecosystem but isn’t possible owing to outdated backend platforms and infra. Such replatforming assists enterprises to take the primary step towards app modernization on the cloud and leverage the latter’s capabilities to the fullest.
Rehost: Also known as “Lift & Shift,” is one of the commonly used approaches to move the applications to cloud. In simple terms, it means, the application are moved to Google with very few changes to the infrastructure as a whole. The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) helps enterprises to decrease their operating expenditure, make space in their data center and quicken the migration process.
Repurchase: Repurchasing involves changing the underlying app, infra licensing models to adopt a cloud-based billing approach. Usually availed as-a-service, such an initiative helps streamline expenses and seamlessly manage, maintain, upgrade, and integrate the existing IT stack.
Refactor: Refactoring means tailoring an application to suit the cloud environment. As part of refactoring, we modify the application itself and a part of the code to ensure that use of cloud-native functions. For refactoring, we will be moving to a PaaS model which includes the Google Wireframe Modernization. Refactoring helps developers to re-use the framework, containers and languages that they invested in.
The age of modern development environments is here, powered and augmented on intelligent Cloud. Google Cloud Platform, brought in by a company that powers the world’s largest software ecosystems, embeds cutting-edge tools and technologies to empower the end enterprise with advanced DevOps-as-a-Service. Integrate native solutions like the Intelligent Google Kubernetes Engine for containerization, Cloud Build for custom workflow management, Artifact Registry to manage container images, Binary Authorization for container security, Tekton and Spinnaker for multicloud CI/CD pipelines deployment, and a smart Operations suite to integrate development environments with production/operational workflows. CloudEngin advanced managed expertise enhances the experience even further, allowing firms to seamlessly onboard a tailored DevOps-as-a-Service architecture on the Google Cloud. Integrate security by design to onboard a full-on DevSecOps culture.
With enterprises increasing their digital footprints every year, the time has come to decrease costs and take advantage of new technologies such as Big Data which offer great flexibility in evaluating the information with powerful AI and analytical algorithms. This will only be possible if the enterprises modernize their data which means moving their legacy system to cloud-databases. CloudEngin being a certified Google partner will help you chalk out the right data migration plan to modernize the data.
Database Migration Services:
- CloudEngin Migration Factories – Faster Migration
- Database of your choice
- Data security during migration
- Migration Strategy, Approach, and Timelines
- Security Tools Mapping
- GAP Mitigation Plan
- Google Estimates
- Migration Estimates
- Landing Zone Readiness and Migration of Workloads
- Complex and Large Scale Migrations
Database Management Services:
- High Availability and Backup
- Personalized and Customized Approach
- Database Tuning, Database Health checks, Disaster Recovery
- Maintenance and Monitoring
- Proactive Threat Detection and Prevention powered by AI and ML
- Near-Zero Management
- Automated and Optimized – First time and Every time
Managed Advanced Data Analytics and BI:
- Data preparation – Single source of truth, Data lakes, Data Marts
- Data visualization
Microservices is becoming the go-to option for enterprises. However, without automation solutions and industry-best instrumentations, implementation and management of Microservices can be very difficult. CloudEngin has a great experience in handling the large-scale Microservices Architecture-based B2B and B2C solutions. With our scalable and cost-optimized Infra as well as DevOps processes for Microservices-based applications via next-generation Containerization and Management, we eliminate the risks and uncertainties associated with Microservices management. Leverage the intelligent Google Kubernetes Engine paired with CloudEngin smart managed services to bolster your containerization and application modernization journey.
- Define Microservice DevOps Strategy
- Managed Container Orchestration
- Scalable and Cost Optimized Infra
- Hybrid Cloud/Cloud Agnostic Setup
Microservices Consulting:
- Tailored, microservices architecture-inspired DevOps Strategy and Implementation.
- Gain the right Application Architecture Strategy coupled with customized DevOps tooling and support to ensure that the Microservice Management can be simplified.
- Microservice based architecture – Deploy istio based applications using EKS, Kubernetes Clusters
- Calico – Pod Security, Network Security – Istio control plane
Our Enterprise Grade Managed services from our Google Center of Excellence help enterprises meet heterogeneous and complex technology environments through a robust service delivery model built on ITIL, ITSM, COBIT process frameworks coupled with our best practices we gathered handling over thousands of IT Modernization projects.
CloudEngin with the help of CloudEngin proprietary frameworks, 40+ security control objectives, and 26 security tools, automatically collects and alerts on security data. The service includes cybersecurity management, including firewall, endpoint protection, virtual network, and antivirus which eliminates blind spots and ensures continuous threat coverage.
We offer a cybersecurity-first design coupled with 24/7 security monitoring instrumentation and assisted by periodical audits is the security strategy we follow. We can help ensure a fault-tolerant security setup that helps Prevent, Detect, Protect and Evolve.
CAF-based Security and Industry Standard Compliance Assessment:
- Native Tool Mapping
- Recommended Security Tools configuration
- Google Security and Governance Policy using Google Config and Blueprints
- Google Landing zone recommendation
CAF Based Google Governance Assessment
- Google Platform Break-fix
- Google Governance MVP (Minimal Viable product) to act as a Governance foundation for current and future workloads
- Google Policies & Blueprint recommendation (Standard and Custom)
Applications Anywhere, Operations Anywhere: Advance your Microservices vision with Intelligent Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service on Google Cloud
The current enterprise IT stack is a hyper-complex ecosystem. More often than not, firms embed multiple platforms, devices, assets, applications across a mix of on-prem, third-party, end-point, and multi-cloud landscapes. Hence, it’s imperative to have a universal framework wherein applications can be seamlessly transferred, deployed, and run across assets and landscapes without the need to separately customize for every single environment. That’s where containerization, orchestration, and workload interoperability come in and the best way to deploy, scale, and manage containers across multiple ecosystems is via the Google Kubernetes Engine, augmented with CloudEngin advanced Kubernetes-as-a-Service managed capabilities.
Why opt for Google Kubernetes Engine?
GKE works as another excellent tool to help reliably solve DevOps problems
Improved scalability and workflow agility
Seamless app migration with multi-cloud ‑flexibility
Eliminate IT costs, operational overheads with four-way auto-scaling and novel optimization features.
High availability, single control plane including multi-zonal and regional clusters.
Secure by default with integrated vulnerability scanning, cloud-monitoring, and Kubernetes-specific audit
Faster time to market with highly improved, modernized app development and deployment
Why avail CloudEngin Managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service Offerings?
In-depth Kubernetes Platform Assessment and Blueprinting.
Infrastructure Optimization and production-grade MVP
Key Features integration: Workload Portability, IAM, Clustering, Policy Management, Auto-healing, Integrated Load Balancing, Clean UI-UX
Customized Kubernetes Deployment with Integrated Automation scalability and workflow agility
Key Features integration: Workload Portability, IAM, Clustering, Policy Management, Auto-healing, Integrated Load Balancing, Clean UI-UX
Dedicated Kubernetes Cost Optimization Exercises
Kubernetes Benchmarking adhering to industry best practices
Comprehensive Kubernetes Risk Audits and Smart Security Integration
Onboard breakthrough agility with Google Kubernetes Engine today!
Why Partner with CloudEngin for your Datacenter Modernization Journey on Google Cloud?
1600+ cloud experts worldwide with local presence in 29 countries
Trusted Google Cloud MSP across EMEA, APAC, Americas
Dedicated Google Cloud COE for SAP and Anthos
AIOps driven automation in Cloud Operations
High availability 99.95%
2500+ Global Enterprise customers
Zero friction business delivery model
24×7 support
Support hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure design on Google Cloud
Certified people resources on ITIL, COBIT, CDCP, CISA, CISSP, CISM, Six Sigma, PMP CCIE, MCP, CEH and more
Comprehensive disaster recovery and BCP portfolio
25 Centers of Excellence (GCP, SAP on GCP, Automation, Managed Security Services, Cloud Managed Services and more)
GCP DC Modernization - FAQs
What does DC Modernization?
Data Center (DC) modernization refers to the transformation of conventional, often hardware-intensive IT infrastructure into a more flexible, scalable, and cloud-compatible environment. This process generally includes migrating workloads to cloud or hybrid platforms, upgrading outdated systems, enhancing security measures, and automating operational tasks.
What is the function of a CI/CD Pipeline in GCP?
A CI/CD pipeline within the Google Cloud Platform automates the processes involved in code development, testing, and deployment.
- Continuous Integration (CI) signifies that code modifications are automatically tested each time developers commit changes.
- Continuous Delivery or Deployment (CD) guarantees that once the code successfully passes all tests, it is promptly and securely released into production.
- Google Cloud Platform provides tools such as Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and Artifact Registry to facilitate the establishment of these pipelines, enabling teams to deliver updates more rapidly and with reduced errors.
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