Cloud Strategy

Re-host (Referred to as a “lift and shift.”): Move applications without changes. In large-scale, legacy migrations, organizations are looking to move quickly to meet business objectives. Applications are easier to optimize/re-architect once they’re already running in the cloud. Partly because your organization will have developed the skills to do so, and partly because the hard part — migrating the application, data, and traffic — has already been done.

Re-platform (Referred to as “lift, tinker, and shift.”) : Make a few cloud optimizations to achieve a tangible benefit. You will not change the core architecture of the application. For example, reduce the amount of time you spend managing database instances by migrating to a database-as-a-service platform. OSI brings proficiency using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), or other fully managed platform like AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

Re-factor / Re-architect: Re-imagine how the application is architected and developed using cloud-native features. This is driven by a strong business need to add features, scale, or performance that would otherwise be difficult to achieve in the application’s existing environment. OSI has experience to migrate from a monolithic architecture to a service-oriented (or server-less) architecture to boost agility or improve business continuity.

Re-purchase: Move from perpetual licenses to a software-as-a-service model. 

Retire: Remove applications that are no longer needed. Once you have completed discovery for your environment, ask who owns each application. As much as 10%-20% of an enterprise IT portfolio is no longer useful and can be turned off.

Retain (Referred to as re-visit.): Keep applications that are critical for the business but that require major refactoring before they can be migrated. You can revisit all applications that fall in this category at a later point in time.