G-CLOUD - CLOUD CONSULTANCY AND DESIGN SERVICES

Automation

We live and breathe automation and DevOps methodologies to automate delivery and maintenance of cloud systems and aim to deliver the most cost-effective and efficient solutions to our customers.

Collaboration

We will work with you to analyse and assess your cloud needs against your current state to make sure the solution we propose is most suited to your requirements. We will identify and incorporate your stakeholder's requirements into all solutions and are happy to conduct any level of discussion, interviews, surveys or workshops to develop buy-in and address any concerns about operating in the cloud that stakeholders may have.

Planning

We can determine the feasibility of movement to the cloud and come up with a proposal which highlights our recommendations, alongside a proposed roadmap for cloud migration and implementation. We will do everything we can to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.

Hosting and Security

From a cloud platform perspective, we have extensive experience working with Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and UKCloud, and can advise your organisation or team on the most appropriate solution based on your short- and long-term needs and budget. Data security and integrity checking services can advise on the appropriate application architecture to ensure government regulations are met.

Cloud Readiness

We can help reorganise existing applications and make them cloud-ready, including advising and implementing virtualisation (VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Xen, etc.) and containerisation (Docker, LXC, Solaris Zones, etc.), as well as the orchestration and configuration of such services (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Capistrano, etc.).

Cost and Design

IB Boost can help you lower costs both with platform and technology choices and service re-engineering which takes advantage of features of every cloud platform. We can help design the architecture for cloud solutions using the latest, best-of-breed tooling and strategies using our expertise in cloud development and automation.

Our cloud consultancy services include:

• Analysis and assessment of organisational and user needs (current and future state)
• Support with building a business case for moving to the cloud
• Engagement with stakeholders to obtain buy-in
• Identification of systems which can and should be migrated to the cloud
• Advice and guidance on the best approach to take with respect to cloud migrations
• Advice on the best cloud solutions and platforms to meet your needs including comparative uptime and cost analysis between the major platforms (such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, UKCloud, and Google Cloud)
• Wireframing and prototyping of ideas and potential solutions
• Design of high-availability (HA) and business continuity / disaster recovery (BC/DR) architectures, including calculation of pricing alternatives for various levels of support and availability
• Comparisons of cloud platform performance and availability metrics
• Provision of data migration and testing tools and methodologies to ensure integrity of your cloud services
• Design of security and audit systems and data integrity plans to ensure 'secure by default' solutions
• Design and assessment of solutions against CESG Good Practice Guides and the HMG Security Policy Framework
• Creation and execution of migration propositions and plans
• Design and implementation of the solution