Lift and Shift Google Cloud Migration for Retail
An online retail company was looking for a solution to handle bandwidth spikes due to upcoming increase in seasonal demand.
days to full migration
IT cost reduction
reduction in energy expenses
Business Case
An online retail company was looking for a solution to handle bandwidth spikes due to upcoming increase in seasonal demand. Due to the rapid growth, the platform was continually challenged to meet the user traffic and transition scale, downtimes occurred that eventually caused financial losses.
After a comprehensive analysis of current capabilities, the company realizes that the expected increase in market demand during the holidays will overheat current infrastructure.
Solution: Lift and Shift Google Cloud Migration
Zelusit provided expertise throughout the entire cloud migration life cycle, helping the client migrate the entire infrastructure to the cloud. The engagement was delivered in the following sequence:
Discover
Understand business requirements, review current and target infrastructures. Examine relevant architecture.
Plan and design
Finalize the proposed cloud architecture and provide detailed technical design and implementation plan according to GCP’s best practices. Utilize deep technical knowledge, as well as precious industry expertise accumulated in time by our data management consultants.
Migrate
Execute the actual migration to the cloud once the technical design and implementation plan are ready.
Improve
While lifting and shifting IT infrastructure and workloads, we are identifying and inventoried the opportunities to improve your system in the future and get the full cloud benefits. This step helps you become embrace a cloud native infrastructure and complete the digital transformation while reducing resource costs and become more efficient.
Impact
- Up to 30 days to full migration, onto up and running in cloud phase
- Up to 60% IT cost reduction
- Up to 50% reduction in your energy expenses
