Enabling Innovation Through Cloud Migration

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organisations are increasingly turning to cloud computing to gain a competitive edge. Cloud migration offers a multitude of benefits, including enhanced scalability, improved agility, reduced costs, and increased security. However, transitioning to the cloud can be a complex undertaking, requiring careful planning, execution, and ongoing management.

Partnering with Deimos can provide your team with the guidance and support you need to navigate the complexities of cloud migration and reap its full potential. By leveraging our expertise, you can ensure a smooth and successful transition to the cloud, enabling your organisation to achieve its business objectives.

OUR APPROACH TO CLOUD MIGRATIONS

Where Do We Even Start?

At Deimos we take a phased approach to all migrations, focussing on yielding value as soon in the process as possible.

During the assessment phase, we determine your business’s cloud readiness by using automated tools and manual discovery.

The goal is to identify any risks upfront in order to mitigate them as soon as possible.

The assessment gives us an indication of what your technology landscape looks like, and enables us to provide you with an overall idea of possible value that can be yielded by the cloud migration.

In the planning phase, we take a deep dive into your current technology landscape, which includes identifying vendor-provided software, application dependencies, business owners, and business and technical risks, etc. We expand on the information already collected, with the aim of creating a detailed migration backlog consisting of the migration waves.

Migration candidates are grouped into migration waves, which are in turn assigned to sprints for migration execution. A large migration will have many waves and sprints that will speed up as the migration progresses and experience is gained.

Furthermore, the planning phase is aimed at:

  1. Determining the overall migration strategy.
  2. Identifying the first mover, a workload that is ideal for migration, has limited dependencies, and can be used to test the migration process.
  3. Defining a backlog of workloads to be migrated to the cloud
  4. Choosing the right migration scenario for the various workloads.
  5. Determining which systems should be migrated together.
  6. Identifying the skills needed for the migration.
  7. Outlining any training that may be required.

We perform the migration according to the migration plan and backlog. Migrations are often done iteratively in order to unlock value as early as possible. As we learn more about the current infrastructure, we adjust and update our way of working to take the new learning into account.

The migration backlog will be worked on in sprints, with each sprint aiming to migrate a set of cohesive services. Collectively, these are referred to as a migration wave. Each migration wave is completed holistically before moving onto the next. This includes testing (performance, features, and security) and retiring the legacy workload.

The optimise phase of the migration is focused on ensuring that the migrated workloads are running optimally and adhering to best practices.

This phase may see us refactoring systems to further benefit from the cloud’s flexibility and elasticity. Further security improvements or operational improvements may be completed during the optimisation phase of the migration.

After successful migration, Deimos offers our clients a set of support services:

24x7 Support

A team of skilled cloud engineers is available 24x7 to assist with outage diagnosis, resolution, and incident management.

Value-Added Services

A team of engineers focused on auditing and improving your performance, cost, and security posture.

Architecture Consultancy

A team of engineers available to assist with the planning and implementation of your next big IT project.

WHY WE’RE THE BEST FIT FOR YOUR BUSINESS

200+

Businesses Already Trust Us As Their Technology Partner

As a partner to all the major cloud service providers including Google, Cloud, AWS and Azure, we’ve helped hundreds of companies unlock the value of the cloud.

We have successfully migrated businesses of all sizes, from Start-Ups to Enterprise, to the cloud. Ensuring their cloud footprint is secure, scalable, highly available, operationally excellent, and cost-effective.

Our team are cloud-natives, with experience in virtualisation, containerisation (with Kubernetes being our favorite) and serverless paradigms.

Cloud Client Testimonials

Hear What Our Clients Have To Say

The collaboration with our Google Cloud partner Deimos was transformative. The migration enhanced our platform's capabilities, providing our users with a more secure and seamless gift card experience.

Olayemi Omoluwa
ITC Manager

“Google Workspace has been a transformative force for Nu Health. The seamless collaboration, real-time file sharing, and efficient communication through Google Meet and Chat have revolutionised our workflow. Our uptime is unparalleled, and the transition orchestrated by Deimos was flawless. Google Workspace, with the expertise of Deimos, is truly a game-changer for optimising our operations and enhancing productivity.”

Nico Uys
MD

“Deimos made our Google Workspace Enterprise transition seamless, ensuring not just enhanced security and efficient day-to-day operations, but also securing the best price for our Workspace Enterprise licence fees. Their expertise has truly elevated our financial services game.”

Barney De Villiers
Lead Security Engineer

Deimos has removed the effort & complexity out of managing our cloud infrastructure, enabling us to focus on delivering exceptional product features. With automated management, scalability & enhanced observability our applications now meet the highest standards of security & reliability.

Bayonle Amzat
Chief Technology Officer

It just works. The amount of time and stress saved by implementing JumpCloud is immeasurable. There is so much to do when you’re a scale-up and leveraging a tight team. It is just so nice to know that one thing is taken care of

Sean Bezuidenhout
Head of Infrastructure

Deimos has elegantly simplified the orchestration of our cloud infrastructure, releasing us from the convoluted demands it once entailed. This empowers us to wholeheartedly concentrate on crafting unmatched product features, unburdened by infrastructure concerns. Such liberation has enabled our team to maintain an unwavering focus on their core strengths.

Abraham Efemenat
Chief Executive Officer

Deimos gives you confidence, confidence to try things out, as Deimos is always there to support and back up. Their technical prowess and collaborative approach have not only optimised our cloud infrastructure but have empowered us to explore new horizons in technology with assurance.

Adriaan van Niekerk
Software Engineer Manager

Deimos exceeded our expectations by establishing robust CI/CD pipelines and implementing secure secret management processes for our Infinity CCS applications. Their commitment to 24/7/365 SLA support ensures any incidents are promptly addressed.

Nick Ray
VP Products

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