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Virtusa’s cloud migration factory

Cloud technologies have come a long way and are now a key factor in any business transformation program. CIOs across the world are migrating their diverse portfolio of applications to the cloud to gain agility, transparency and cost control.

The business environment is under a constant flux due to the evolving demands of customers and progressive technologies. Current enterprise systems cannot take the load of and fail miserably when it comes to scaling and flexibility.

Virtusa’s cloud migration factory model deploys repeatable processes and reusable artifacts for application migration. We have strong expertise in assessment, migration, implementation, and integration of cloud solutions.

The model identifies and aligns with organizational platforms (infrastructure and application), architecture blueprints, policies and guidelines providing balance cloud portability. Virtusa’s cloud migration factory follows a phased approach of analysis, design, planning, implementation and testing as shown below:

Business drivers

Challenges

• Managing applications running in legacy environment consume up to 70% of IT budget

• Growing business demands being more responsive by keeping costs down and minimizing business and operational risks better

• Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by migrating applications to the cloud

• Limiting cost of transformation adhering to ROI objectives

• Need for automated, repeatable, measurable, monitored and flexible migration process along with consolidation of applications

• Develop applications faster and decrease the downtime

• Lesser degree of standardization

• Unbalanced cloud portability

• Inability to handle large scale transformation

• Time consuming and costly migration process

• Lack of scalability, repeatability, customization and reusability

• Limited risk identification, mitigation and exception handling mechanism

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Categorization & analysis of applications

Bluprint mapping

Prioritizing applications

Creating tactical & strategic solution options

Test plans

Cloud formation & chef

Data migration Performance & functional testing

Integration testing

Analysis

Planning

Design

Implementation

Testing

Virtusa’s cloud migration factory methodology

Faster time to market with Virtusa’s tools and frameworks

Business value delivered

Virtusa’s cloud migration factory is defined and validated through a macro/micro analysis and reference implementation as shown below.

We explore, test and use innovative tools designed specifically for accelerating cloud migration.• Application categories and reference architectures

• Engineering Rigor Automation (ERA) & Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) tool

• Templates for cataloging constraints

• Architectural patterns and best practices for operations and QA

• Storage selection worksheet & integration patterns

• Checklists (Database, operational, audit and security etc.)

• Automation and AMI guidelines, Opsworks, Cloudformer

• Solution for AWS known limitations

• Efficient cost control and operational excellence through cost reduction in development, infrastructure, maintenance and component reusability

• Faster migration with reduced risk and increased scalability

• Making business more adaptable with rapid technology innovations

• Transparent IT portfolio with efficient & effective governance

Virtusa differentiators• Right sized partner with

experience in large transformation programs partnering with leading cloud vendors such AWS, Azure

• Highly proficient and skilled team with competency in multiple Iaas platforms

• Tried and tested processes, tools with proven governance framework

• Flexible delivery model based on the combination of onsite and offsite

• End to end lifecycle services across the entire cloud migration factory with leading expertise in cloud computing

• Rich experience of finding the right blend of automation using CI & CD methodologies

• Migration roadmap showcasing ROI in 3 to 5 yrs period

Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS: VRTU) is a global provider of information technology (IT) consulting and outsourcing services that accelerate outcomes for businesses in banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, technology, and media & entertainment. Virtusa’sss outsourcing solutions enable businesses to improve operational efficiency and reduce IT costs. Virtusa’sss digital transformation solutions empower clients to accelerate revenue growth and reimagine the customer experience.

Through the acquisition of a majority interest in Polaris Consulting Services Ltd. in March 2016, Virtusa has created a robust platform to provide end-to-end solutions and services in banking and financial services, strengthening its positioning as a top, global FinTech services provider. Virtusa Corporation is headquartered in Massachusetts and has 50 offices across North America, Europe and Asia.

Polaris Consulting & Services, Ltd. is a subsidiary of Virtusa Corporation. Copyright © 2017 Virtusa Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

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About Virtusa

Analysis of applications, architectures & constraints

Analysis, Planning, Design Implementation & Testing

Architecture blue prints, applications categorization & clusters, existing enterprise architecture analysis, policies & guidelines

Individual application focus

Migration plan & effort estimates

Cloud application architecture, prioritization of strategic and tactical opportunities, test plan

Excersise cloud factory methodology

Validation & fine tuning

Applications migrated to cloud

Macro Analysis

Define Refine Execute

Micro Analysis Reference Implementation