Cloud Migration and Optimization
Cloud computing services offer proven, fast and measurable benefits for institutions of all sizes, but developing and executing a migration plan can be paralyzing for overwhelmed IT staff.
Dynamic Campus has a proven cloud migration methodology that delivers rapid results without interrupting your operations. In an extreme, award-winning example, we helped one institution recover from a devastating hurricane by migrating four critical systems from a Puerto Rico data center to a mainland cloud provider in less than three weeks, not only saving their fall semester but saving $352,000 in data center expenses in the process.
Cloud computing services offer proven, fast and measurable benefits for institutions of all sizes, but developing and executing a migration plan can be paralyzing for overwhelmed IT staff.
Dynamic Campus has a proven cloud migration methodology that delivers rapid results without interrupting your operations. In an extreme, award-winning example, we helped one institution recover from a devastating hurricane by migrating four critical systems from a Puerto Rico data center to a mainland cloud provider in less than three weeks, not only saving their fall semester but saving $352,000 in data center expenses in the process.
It’s this kind of expertise and understanding of the migration process and tools that sets Dynamic Campus apart. We know that migrating systems to the cloud can deliver often unanticipated financial and business advantages in areas like hardware infrastructure, licensing, HVAC, and other physical concerns associated with moving and updating hardware and software systems. We can help you communicate those advantages to your key stakeholders. And because Higher Ed is our only business, we understand which types of systems are business-critical for you, a perspective that’s key to properly configuring – and optimizing – your cloud services.
Beyond the hardware-expense advantages of cloud environments — you may be able to migrate to cloud services for the same or less than you’re spending on hardware – you’ll gain more data security across multiple sites and increase availability, all while maximizing your security configuration, an ever-increasing concern. In many cases, you may be able to optimize how you use cloud software, leveraging the continuous delivery and update capabilities many platforms natively offer.
As part of our partnership, Dynamic Campus will work with you to maximize your cloud vendor approach to define the best, most cost-effective solution for your institution. Because every institution has unique requirements, we perform a thorough business process analysis before engaging our technology Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for intelligence gathering and translating business needs into requirements. With the plan in place, we streamline the work through our project managers for a successful implementation.
Equally important to a successful cloud migration is the optimization of possibly redundant platforms and applications. As with a migration, we’ll perform a thorough business process analysis to determine your IT ecosystem’s current status and how it can be improved. We’ll learn if a system needs to be replaced or just optimized so you can use existing software to its fullest capability. And if needed, we’ll identify and put in place an IT governance structure to create and steward institutional initiatives to promote data as an asset and ensure that you have all reporting based on clean data, providing confidence to decision makers at every level.
