Before the migration:
Assess your infrastructure’s true potential
Your existing infrastructure holds hidden advantages. Jeno Bartalos, our cloud strategy expert, explains how a focused approach reveals these opportunities, setting the stage for a safe transition.
Your commitment-free path to the cloud guided by experts
Cloud experts are here to uncover opportunities, mitigate risks and offload the burden of mundane analysis. Before you make any decisions.
Operational relief via strategic assistance
Overwhelmed by the complexity of your infrastructure's analysis? Get help with assessments from external engineers and benefit from a fully independent, objective evaluation.
On-demand cloud expertise
Access a comprehensive range of specialized cloud skills that will accelerate your cloud maturity without the need for extensive hiring or internal training. Instantly augment your team's capabilities.
Optimized costs and precise timelines
Strategic prototyping, involving multiple POC phases executed by our engineers, provides clear insights into cost optimization and a definitive project timeline.
Inventory mapping with ease:
Relieve your IT resource burden
Thanks to FOTC’s Path to the Cloud offering, the resource-intensive inventory mapping your infrastructure to corresponding Google Cloud services is handed to external specialists. After completion, you end up with detailed and realistic outcomes of what your future migration would look like to make an informed decision about proceeding - or not.
Recognize your challenges? Path to the cloud
may be your ideal next move
Cost estimation issues
Is estimating migration costs proving overly complex and error-prone? Numerous factors and “what-if” scenarios heavily impact accurate plans. We streamline this process for a significantly smoother experience.
Unpredictable demand
Are you struggling to manage resource allocation in response to sudden traffic spikes or seasonal variations? We implement automated scaling strategies that prevent downtime and overspending.
Scaling constraints
Are you concerned about your infrastructure’s ability to handle future growth and increased user demand? We design cloud architectures that are built for scalability, allowing you to adapt and expand your business.
Legacy limitations
Are you facing challenges with maintaining and supporting aging hardware and software? Our cloud migration services provide a pathway to eliminate the limitations of legacy systems – for good.
How path to the cloud equips you for a well-planned migration
Assessment - discovery and analysis of existing workloads
It starts through a series of interviews and workshops with the client to discover the key objectives and the scope.
Mapping solutions and workloads to cloud services
Following the assessment phase, FOTC engineers help in mapping services based on inventory and customer input.
Detailed cost and timeline estimation
After reviewing the inventory with the client, FOTC proceeds with putting together cost and timeline documentation.
Migration plan with a roadmap
The last step is to finalize everything into a complete document that shows what a migration would look like.
Beyond the timeline:
How we ensure your migration plan is a success
At FOTC, we dig deeper, ensuring every detail aligns with your unique business goals, minimizing disruption and maximizing impact. Check out how it often looks like in reality.
Lift-and-shift is often a missed opportunity
A simple 'lift-and-shift' might move applications quickly, but it can leave behind outdated infrastructure and missed chances for optimization. “Lift-and-improve” avoids replicating inefficiencies in the cloud.
Avoiding vendor lock-in
Designing applications with open standards and containerization enables seamless portability. This ensures that a company's data and applications remain independent, allowing for strategic shifts without costly re-engineering.
POC-focused approach
Picture a complex application undergoing a trial run, revealing potential performance bottlenecks or compatibility issues. This approach minimizes risks and provides valuable insights, leading to a smoother and more confident migration.
Right-sizing the cloud
A phased approach, with careful consideration of workload placement, allows for a balanced and cost-effective solution. Cloud adoption should align with business needs, not just follow a trend.
Browse through examples of success in the cloud with FOTC’s guidance
Surfer
The well-known SEO tool achieved rapid global expansion using Google Cloud's BigQuery and Cloud SQL. This provided the analytics and scalability needed for high availability and user growth.
Comixify
Comixify leverages Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its AI-powered video and image editing platform. FOTC optimizes their GCP usage, ensuring efficient GPU-powered machine learning model training and rapid feature deployment.
Péntech
Péntech, a fintech startup, leverages GCP's serverless architecture and AI tools to deliver a digital invoice factoring application. FOTC's partnership helps Péntech accelerate development and enhance operational efficiency.
Merixstudio
This fast-growing software house uses Google Cloud (Kubernetes, databases, storage) for scalable, cost-effective digital product development. They also streamlined collaboration with Google Workspace, assisted by FOTC.
Get started with assessing your cloud readiness
Initiate a preliminary review to gain insights into your infrastructure and determine optimal cloud pathways. Find out if building a roadmap is for you.
After roadmapping your move:
full range of IT services for cloud environments
FOTC gets you covered in the planning phase and migration, as well as afterwards, to ensure best-in-class setup and security for your environment.
Migration - Infrastructure migration to the cloud according to the developed plan.
Landing zone - Initial setup of the cloud environment in accordance with Google's best practices.
Support - An extension of your IT team that solves issues and proactively proposes improvements.
Engineering as a Service - Your external team of cloud engineers available for a wide range of jobs.
Disaster Recovery Plan - Set of the procedures to be undertaken in the event of a failure.
Managed services - Your cloud comprehensively handled by FOTC engineers, end-to-end.
Your questions,
answered.
The length of the migration pre-work offering from FOTC is highly dependent on the scope of the project, the existing infrastructure and business goals of the client. From our previous experiences, you can estimate that this process takes anywhere between weeks to months. Regardless of the length and complexity, we follow an agreed timeline with the client to have a thorough overview of all the milestones and projected completion date.
No. Path to the Cloud is a separate product from actual migration services from FOTC. The service is intended as a preliminary step for companies early on their road to cloud readiness. It will equip you with a solid foundation for undertaking a migration project and give you a strong understanding of all the costs and time frames.
Yes. FOTC’s engineers are well-equipped not just to guide you through the pre-work phase, but also through the entire migration, provided you decide to proceed.
Yes, Path to the Cloud is a separate product intended for companies doing preliminary research regarding the costs and timeline of a potential cloud migration. It may proceed with an actual migration, but it’s not required. The pricing depends on the size of the infrastructure, the number of assets in the inventory, as well as business goals. FOTC engineers provide actual pricing after an initial contact with the client.