8 Business Drivers ThatMotivate Cloud Migrations
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How SoltiusME and AWS help businesses achieve their goals
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• Why Cloud, Why Now?
o Cost Reduction
o Agility & Staff Productivity
o Improved Security & Operational Resilience
o Hardware/Software End-of-Life
o Data Center Consolidation
o Digital Transformation
o Going Global Quickly, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
o New Technologies (AI/ML & IoT)
• Migrating to AWS with SoltiusME
• Benefits of migrating to AWS with SoltiusME
• Case Study
• AWS-The Best Choice For Any Migration Motivation
• Ready to get started? 14Co
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Why Cloud, Why Now?
By migrating some or all of their digital assets to the
cloud, businesses can achieve transformational results.
They can move and innovate faster, modernize aging
infrastructure, scale globally, get better insights from
their data, and restructure organizational models to
create better customer experiences.
Over its 13+ years of experience helping thousands of
organizations successfully migrate to the cloud, AWS
has observed eight business drivers that emerge as
the most prevalent motivators for migration.
Business drivers for migrating to the cloud
1. Cost
reduction
5. Data center
consolidation
6. Digital transformation
7.Going global quickly,
mergers &
acquisitions (M&A)
8. New technologies
(AI/ML & IoT)
2. Agility & staff
productivity
3. Improved security &
operational resilience
4. Hardware/software
end-of-life
IT staff time costs
($p
er
org
an
izati
on
over
five
years
)
Cost of lost user
productivity and
unplanned downtime
Five-Year Cost of Operations Using AWS
10,000,000
0
30,000,000
20,000,000
40,000,000
60,000,000
50,000,000
$54,000,000
$6,420,500
$30,895,200
$16,870,000
$11,569,000
$14,612,700
$26,565,500
51% Lower
$383,800
Before/without
AWSWith AWS
IT infrastructure-
related costs
Cost reduction is a major migration motivator,
as retiring legacy infrastructure in favor of more
efficient AWS solutions is virtually certain to
bring costs down.
IDC PROJECTS1:
51%reduction in
operational costs
31%lower 5-year
TCO
1. Cost Reduction
1 https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/AWS-
BV%20IDC%202018.pdf?aliId=1614258770
Flexible AWS architecture improves business agility, while automation allows staff to increase the pace of
innovation and dedicate more time to important tasks.
AGILITY
PRODUCTIVITY
18.8%faster time-
to market3
62%better IT staff
productivity3
33.8%higher app
revenue per user3
26.4%more features and
fixes per release3
After 3+ years on AWS, the average IT admin can:
Gain Gain
3.3X 3.2Xbetter IT staff more terabytes
productivity3 of data3
2. Agility & Staff Productivity
2 https://d1.awsstatic.com/executive-insights/en_US/infographic-realizing-business-value-with-aws.pdf
Migrating and modernizing with SoltiusME – Division of YASH Technologies and AWS hardens security to help
protect against cyber attacks, define and manage access policies, and prevent unauthorized disclosure and
modification using encryption and policy-driven controls. AWS also helps ensure resiliency, providing high
availability with virtually unlimited failover capacity.
SECURITY RESILIENCE
Learn more about AWS Cloud Security >>
43.4%fewer monthly security
incidents5
7xless
downtime6
3. Improved Security and Operational
Resilience
3500 AWS Customers. AWS Benchmarking, August 2018
4https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/AWS-BV%20IDC%202018.pdf?aliId=1614258770
Many organizations migrate to AWS due to the end-of-life (EOL) of their hardware/software licensing and/or
support. These companies see the cloud as an opportunity to improve depreciating capabilities and to end or
shorten refresh cycles. This is especially compelling for organizations running Windows workloads and applications.
AWS runs nearly 2x more Windows Server instances than the next largest cloud provider, according to an IDC report.
Migrate Windows-based environments to AWS and achieve, on average:7
442%Five-year ROI
9-monthBreak-even point
56%Cost savings
Learn more about Windows on AWS >>
4. Hardware/Software End-of-Life
5 https://d1.awsstatic.com/analyst-reports/Business%20Value%20of%20Efficiently%20Running%20 High-
Performing%20Windows%20Workloads%20in%20the%20AWS%20Cloud.pdf
Organizations can spend less time managing data centers and more time running their businesses
by migrating to AWS with SoltiusME.
Migrating to AWS with SoltiusME helps businesses achieve digital transformation by boosting
agility, enabling broader use of advanced technologies, and facilitating culture change.
5. Data Center Consolidation
6. Digital Transformation
When SoltiusME’s customers choose to migrate to AWS, they gain access to a global network of
data centers – enabling rapid, strategic scalability. AWS also makes it easier to integrate digital
assets, shortening and streamlining M&A procedures.
Explore the full breadth and depth of AWS Global Infrastructure >>
7. Going Global Quickly, Mergers and
Acquisitions (M&A)
Regions
Coming soon
77availability
zones
245countries & territories
AWS Global
Infrastructure
24worldwide
regions
Migrating to AWS is a more economical and practical
solution for meeting the data storage and computational
requirements of emerging technologies such as artificial
intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and Internet of
Things (IoT).
Learn more about AWS AI/ML >> Learn more about AWS IoT >>
Intuit can
deploy machine
learning models
90%faster8
Vantage Power
can process
100,000+data points per
minute across
its IoT ecosystem9
8. New Technologies (AI/ML & Iot)
6https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/Intuit/
7https://aws.amazon.com/partners/success/vantage-power-luxoft/
Migrating to AWS with SoltiusME
• Fast and accurate assessment
A rapid discovery and assessment of your “as-is” infrastructure, data
and application landscape, providing the right recommendation and
solution on AWS cloud and seamlessly migrating to AWS with a
mature, modernized architecture
• Comprehensive cloud services portfolio
We deliver a complete, end-to-end cloud services portfolio. Offerings
include cloud advisory services, strategy and roadmap definition,
assessment, deployment, implementation, workload migration, and
support
• ASCENT – The best delivery framework
SoltiusME ASCENT delivery framework is unique in its ability to
accelerate each phase of migration to the AWS cloud, achieving faster
time to value
• Experienced workforce
1000+ cloud experts with in-depth industry knowledge and technical
experience in handling complex cloud migrations and transformations
SoltiusME is a leading AWS Advanced
Consulting Partner and Managed
Cloud Services Provider (MSP)
globally. We help hundreds of
businesses worldwide migrate their
infrastructure and applications
confidently to the AWS cloud. Our
experienced AWS cloud migration
experts help you achieve a fast,
accurate assessment of your existing
application landscape, then define a
new architecture on AWS.
Our Proven approach to cloud
migration - evidenced by hundreds of
successful client engagements
resulted in significant improvements
in time to market, business outcomes,
IT performance and cost
optimization, scalability, availability
and more.
Key aspects as part of our proven approach:
Benefits of migrating to AWS with SoltiusME
Businesses that are considering
moving from an in-house,
traditional IT environment to a
scalable and flexible AWS
environment should partner with
an experienced AWS Consulting
Partner who brings in-depth
industry knowledge and technical
experience to help businesses
realize the value and Return on
Investment on cloud migrations
quickly.
• We provide seamless migration to AWS that reduces Total cost of
ownership (TCO) by 30% and ramp up your business processes with
almost 99.99% uptime
• SoltiusME’s AWS migration services and solutions offer security and
reliability to your IT applications and systems on AWS clouds. It offers
you tremendous improvement in performance by 40%
• Our AWS migration services will provide you unbeatable operational
agility and speed. Thus your development teams can start working on
new products and services without any delay.
• Our hybrid cloud infrastructure support simplifies visibility for your
cloud environment in a single management pane.
• One of the most important advantages of partnering with SoltiusME is,
you will have full control and transparency of your IT resources on AWS
cloud like budget consumed, time spent and saved, resource utilization,
Productivity etc.
Case Study
Client:
A greenfield fertilizer manufacturing complex, specializes in producing and
distributing nitrogen-based inputs, methanol, melamine, and diesel exhaust fluid
for agricultural and industrial applications worldwide.
Challenge:
The client has been leveraging the benefits of SAP ECC 6.0 EHP 7, running on IBM
DB2, hosted at a data center in the Netherlands. The company decided to migrate
the SAP application landscape to AWS in the US region and upgrade the
underlying database to SAP HANA (Suite on HANA). The client wanted to carve
out a niche for the US business data within the SAP data ecosystem and rebuild all
the critical third-party interfaces post-migration to the AWS cloud.
Solution:
• The SoltiusME consultants proposed a plan to migrate the SAP ECC EHP7 on
RHEL 6.0, IBM DB2 source to the SAP ECC EHP7 on RHEL 7.2, with HANA 1.0
SP12 target system in AWS. Also, SoltiusME re-established all the mission-
critical interfaces that the stakeholders needed for daily activities.
• The engagement being covered by a Hyper care Support phase, guaranteed
to resolve all issues associated with the AWS migration of the SAP systems.
Result:
• A unique initiative that
allowed the client to
capitalize on the proven
AWS advantages to run
SAP, the engagement
enhanced resiliency and
shifted the balance of the
landscape towards the US
region with improved
control.
• The cloud migration
reduced the processing
time for the background
jobs. Improved the
response and performance
of SAP functions by an
astounding 40%.
AWS And SoltiusME - The Best Choice For
Any Migration Motivation
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No matter what motivates businesses to migrate to the cloud - one of the eight drivers described in this eBook,
any combination of them, or something else entirely - SoltiusME and AWS can help them achieve their objectives
quickly and efficiently.
With the best software, services, and support, AWS enables smart, strategic migrations for businesses of every
shape and size.
SoltiusME is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner
and AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP) with deep
expertise in launching and leveraging the power of
the cloud. We believe that cloud technology is the
greatest business transformation tool. Our mission is
to help you harness that power to transform your
business and make your company’s mission a reality.