Enhance business agility with data centre extension or migration to the cloud.
Extending or Migrating to the Cloud
Ease your journey to a modern data centre Template
Most organisations today have a cloud migration strategy, designed to improve business agility. Whether it’s extending an on-premises data centre with hybrid cloud services or a full migration to a cloud environment, by working with us and Firstserv, you gain support all the way along your cloud journey, whilst simultaneously reducing risk and cost.
Benefits of migrating to the cloud
Increase business agility
The ability to move at speed, spin up new environments in minutes, not days, and have
on-demand capacity to quickly scale.
Reduce operating costs
Leverage purpose-built cloud infrastructure to benefit from more efficient IT resources that
not only reduce costs but also align to capacity needs.
Future proofing platforms
Remove the CapEx cycle of investment and move to an OpEx model of leveraging cloud resources as-a-service.
Whatever you want to do – we have it covered
Each organisation has a unique cloud strategy and is at a different stage of their cloud migration journey. By working with us, you can gain access to a solution that offers support whether you’re just starting out or are a long way down the road.
Data centre extension
Rather than expand your on-premises data centre, you may want to extend in the cloud. We can do this by providing a seamless hybrid cloud that virtualises your current environment into the cloud.
Data centre replication
If you’re looking to have a business continuity plan where your datacentre environment is replicated in the cloud, we make this effortless and affordable, with flexible environments and commercial terms.
Data centre migration
For organisations looking to migrate current on-premises data centre to the cloud, with both private and public cloud options, we can offer the flexibility to easily migrate to a hybrid environment.
How we make it easy for you to extend or migrate to cloud
Each organisation has a unique cloud strategy and is at a different stage of their cloud migration journey. By working with us, you can gain access to a solution that offers support whether you’re just starting out or are a long way down the road.
On-demand resources
By partnering with Firstserv, we provide a comprehensive range of on-demand resources, enabling you to move on premises infrastructure to the cloud, burst out to cloud, host new applications or migrate existing VMs to a data centre.
Rapid deployment
We significantly reduce the time taken to spin up new environments: what would take days or even weeks to provision on-premises we do in minutes, with the average time of adding a serve.
Flexibility & hybridity
Migrate to the cloud at your pace. The flexibility we offer fully supports a hybrid environment with a customisable WAN to align with your migration goals. It removes the need to make on-premises changes – you can perform a partial or full migration as and when the time is right for you.
Security
We ensure that anyone, in just a few clicks, can set up and deconstruct fully-automated tunnels for their data. You can effortlessly migrate VMs to our cloud and keep them on the same secured L2 extended network segment and deploy consistent security policies.
Standardisation
We offer full VMware compatibility. Effortlessly migrate or extend your solutions and licenses to cloud without changing the technology or architecture you know and trust. Teams can seamlessly transition from on premises management to our cloud using the same tools and methodology they currently rely on.
Connectivity
With multiple points-of-presence and dedicated network connectivity, it is easy to connect to Firstserv’s infrastructure and data centres. Data is transferred between sites via a direct private link or VPN, which means all exchanges are secure.
Seamlessly migrate workloads
Migrate your active workloads without any downtime. With our Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) service, you have the option of using replication-based migration to transition VMs while keeping your downtime to the absolute minimum.
Commercial flexibility, cost advantage
We offer our customers commercial flexibility and competitive pricing, which gives you access to cutting edge services without breaking the bank.
