How to migrate VMs to Google Cloud using a specialist partner
Choosing the right platform for your business is the first step in your migration to the public cloud.
If you have chosen Google Cloud Services (GCS) as the preferred public cloud platform, you could then begin your migration journey yourself, or to reduce risk, cost, and increase speed of migration it’s best to work with a specialist consultancy or partner to help you.
Google Cloud is certainly an extremely compelling solution for organisations of all types and sizes. But once you have chosen to use Google Cloud, the next step is to review business readiness, current environment and how it will look on the future. This is the stage where you build a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) model. To help you build your TCO and support the internal business case, GCS specialists have access to the following initiatives supported by Google Cloud.
Discovery and Assessment Tools
Google Cloud partners have access to licenses for specific modules of discovery and assessment tools from Cloud Physics and Stratozone.
Migration Tools
Velostrata is a purpose built cloud migration software solution from Google. Velostrata enables large scale migrations in the simplest manner available. Customers migrating to GCS, will benefit by using a GCS partner as they will have access to Velostrata.
Customer Training
If you are partnering with a managed services provider, you may not need or want to provide skills training to your teams. It is worth noting however that GCS partners can often obtain GCS training credits for you. This will help build internal knowledge allowing you to migrate and maintain your systems in the future.
Migration Credits
Google Cloud (GCS) partners can access migration credits on your behalf. These credits can be used to help customers migrate their VMs onto the GCS platform and are calculated as a percentage of the 1st year platform costs.
Summary
Google Cloud (GCS) helps partners by providing access to tools and other benefits many of which are not openly available to end user organisations. Partners also help partner to help you take advantage of specific public cloud provider benefits.
Cloud migration and planning is a science, and should not be rushed into, you need to change the mentality. You will no longer be buying and deploying physical servers, they should be seen as software, with numbers and versions, not singular architecture with host names. When you hear of horror stories of costs spiralling out of control, it is often because of poor design and management.You cannot simply re create your old environment and mindset in the public cloud and expect great results and cost savings.
Remember, done properly public cloud can be the answer to so many of your technology headaches, done badly the migraine will just have begun.
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