Cloud & Application Modernization Services
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Overcoming Cloud & Application Modernization Challenges
- Incompatible Legacy Systems
- Slow Development Cycles
- Downtime Caused by Limited Scalability
- Risk of Data Breaches
- Non-compliance with Data Laws & Regulations
- Incoherent Cloud Policies with Business Goals
- Inefficient & Unstructured Cloud Approach
- Security Threats, Unidentified Risks & Vulnerabilities
- Increased IT Infrastructure Cost
- Lack of Collaboration Between Teams
- Frequent Downtime Due to Manual Processes
- Slow Pace of Software Deployment
Harnessing Cloud Excellence to Fuel Business Growth
Veraqor simplifies cloud workload design, development, and deployment with enterprise offerings and WAF, compliance, scalability, and monitoring. Align your resources with best practices to optimize results, achieve business continuity, and garner maximum value from your cloud investments.
Cloud Modernization
Helping businesses adopt the cloud and enabling them to take advantage of the scalability, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and security features that the cloud offers while reducing their risk and complexity.
Key Benefits
Reduce your ownership cost quickly
Enhance security, flexibility, and scalability for all your workloads
Modernize and optimize your application & infrastructure framework
Optimize your architecture while retaining your investment in existing solutions
Technical Capabilities
Cloud Assessment
Cloud assessment provides an overview of your organization’s existing setup and allows you to make informed decisions about the most beneficial move. It covers the application portfolio, processes, technology stacks, and implementation architecture, providing actionable insights for optimization.
Cloud Infrastructure
Delivering scalability, reliability, and performance needed to keep businesses running smoothly through data centralization and modernization. Access your data, applications, and resources quickly and securely.
Cloud Strategy
Successful migration starts with a clear strategy that aligns organizational goals with the appropriate cloud solutions. A tailored approach ensures your infrastructure will be flexible to meet business demands.
Cloud Management & Optimization
Through distributed computing, businesses can unlock access to new data storage capabilities that increase their processing power and agility, resulting in enhanced performance. Additionally, by utilizing cloud optimization services, companies are able to maximize their ROI through reduced downtime and improved scalability.
Cloud Modernization Trends
Containerized applications are expected to grow at a CAGR of 30% from 2021 to 2028.
70% of companies that have migrated to the cloud report cost savings of 20% or more.
Spending on cloud security services is projected to reach $12.6 billion by 2024.
By 2025, more than half of enterprises will have implemented a hybrid cloud strategy to optimize workloads and reduce costs.
App Modernization
Application modernization empowers businesses to choose the best course of action to enhance their existing applications or build new ones from the ground up. Organizations can move the entire app to an alternative environment or containerize specific portions of it and manage it. Moreover, cloud-native features allow for improved collaboration via APIs. Your objectives define your path to modernization and how you plan to proceed.
Key Benefits
Ensures productivity boost and enables operational simplicity
Expedited development lifecycle
Reduced operational costs
Enables seamless business continuity and scalability
Technical Capabilities
Application Assessment
Veraqor provides you with the capability to assess your current application infrastructure, furnishing you with an accurate grasp of your legacy systems. By assessing your existing workloads and aligning them with your organizational vision, you can ensure a productivity boost through the modernization process. This results in a successful and effective app modernization experience.
Rearchitecting Cloud Application
Leverage our cloud architects to revamp your applications and efficiently transfer your legacy code and logic to a new platform that aligns with your unique business requirements. Additionally, align your application infrastructure with modern trends, best practices, and architecture techniques to keep your technology stack updated and optimized.
Application Redesign
Our team collaborates with you to provide a frictionless user experience that places human-centric design principles at the core of your cloud app redesign process. Re-evaluating your interface, user experience, and user testing, we assist you in redesigning a comprehensive application with your target audience in mind to enhance your business goals.
App Modernization Trends
The global cloud migration services market has surpassed $7 billion in the last few years.
70% of IT decision-makers plan to increase cloud spending , with an average increase of 47% over the previous years.
The majority of the workloads in enterprises have shifted to the cloud in recent years, with more companies embracing cloud modernization.
The worldwide public cloud services market has grown to $364 billion in the past few years, up from $257.5 billion in the year 2020.
Data Estate Modernization
Veraqor’s Data Estate Modernization provides enterprises with the necessary tools, frameworks, and platforms to acquire the capabilities necessary for success. With our services, we help clients create successful pathways to industrialization through cloud innovation and use the data source for meaningful purposes. By leveraging cloud automation capabilities, companies can ingest, transform and consume data in real-time to support their operations and bring down TCO.
Key Benefits
Enhanced security and threat detection for both cloud and on-premises environments
Simplified management and governance for cloud and on-premises IT estates
Accelerated innovation and delivery of new products/services to customers
Improved business efficiencies with modern apps and infrastructure
Technical Capabilities
Data Estate Modernization
Modernizing your data estate can involve shifting or lifting entire data environments to the Cloud, deploying hybrid data scenarios, or upgrading to the latest versions of SQL Server on-premises. Veraqor delivers all this through data estate modernization offerings.
Data Estate Redesign & Development
We specialize in designing and developing modern data estates that provide business continuity and high availability, as well as geo-replication and failover mechanisms to ensure optimal stability and success. Through data estate redesign and development, we ensure that enterprises get tailored solutions.
Managed Data Services
Managing an extended data estate that includes a variety of services can be a real challenge for IT departments. Our managed data services make it easy for enterprises to manage all their workloads with no extra effort or stress to streamline processes and increase productivity.
Data Estate Modernization Trends
80% of enterprises will have the mechanism in place in upcoming years to shift to cloud-centric infrastructure and applications, twice as fast as before the pandemic.
72% of organizations reported their industry’s pace of cloud transformation has been accelerating after the pandemic.
Cloud Governance & Operations
Veraqor provides comprehensive solutions that ensure your cloud environment is compliant with all applicable compliance and regulations. Our services help you proactively manage risk, enhance reliability, and increase stakeholders’ confidence through clear policies and well-defined processes. This may include compliance with data protection regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI DSS, as well as industry-specific regulations such as those governing financial services or healthcare.
Key Benefits
Ensures regulatory compliance
Data security posture management
Technical Capabilities
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Adopt a comprehensive approach to manage your organization’s operations, risks, and compliance requirements but clearly establishing policies, procedures, and guidelines, defining roles and responsibilities, and ensuring accountability. All while remaining aligned with business objectives and comply with relevant laws and regulations.
Resource Management
Effective resource management is critical for organizations that use cloud computing services because it can help reduce costs, improve performance, and ensure that resources are available when needed. Our Cloud experts provide governance frameworks provide tools and processes to help manage resource usage across different cloud providers and services, and to enforce policies for resource allocation and usage.
Cloud Governance & Operations Trends
Compliance is a top priority for 94% of IT and data security professionals.
32% of organizations assigned incorrect access authorizations and privileges to users, while 60% discovered the existence of shadow administrators.
Over 50% of organizations struggle with compliance and audit challenges when using cloud solutions.
Encryption poses a challenge for 65% of organizations due to the data classification complexities associated with cloud computing.
Cloud Security
With cloud-based tools and services becoming an integral part of most organizations’ IT infrastructure, having a comprehensive approach to cloud security is essential for long-term success.
Key Benefits
Veraqor offers complete cloud security solutions that cover proactive threat management, data security, regulatory compliance, scalability, and high availability. Our services are designed to provide maximum support and protect your business from potential threats. Veraqor’s advanced enterprise cloud solutions put security leaders in the driving seat to make their cloud-first journey secure to deliver better business outcomes.
Technical Capabilities
Cloud Security & Compliance
Veraqor provides comprehensive data security solutions to protect your business from potential threats. Our services include identity and access management (IAM), governance policies on threat prevention, detection, and mitigation, data retention (DR), and business continuity (BC) planning, as well as legal compliance requirements. With our secure cloud infrastructure, you can rest assured that your sensitive data is safe and secure while at the same time allowing you to take advantage of its scalability and high availability.
Cloud Security Trends
Recent studies have shown that 45% of all breaches occur in the cloud.
Data privacy/confidentiality has been among the top cloud security concerns, followed by accidental exposure of credentials.
A staggering 80% of companies reported at least one cloud security incident within the last year.
52% of organizations lack visibility into which resources a user can access and the level of permission or privilege granted.
Well-Architected Framework
The Well-Architected Framework (WAF) ensures reliable, secure, and efficient systems in the cloud. It delivers a baseline for evaluating existing architectures and identifying areas for improvement, enabling organizations to optimize their infrastructure and improve their cloud operations while reducing costs.
Key Benefits
Structured approach to optimize cloud systems for improved efficiency, security, cost-effectiveness & performance
Facilitate collaboration between development and operations teams
Identifies potential risks & vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure for implementing security measures
Provides guidance on compliance with best practices & regulatory requirements
Technical Capabilities
Security
The WAF provides guidance on designing and operating secure cloud-based systems, with a focus on identifying and mitigating potential risks and vulnerabilities. By following the WAF’s recommendations, organizations can ensure that their cloud infrastructure meets industry best practices and regulatory requirements for security.
Reliability & Performance Efficiency
WAF provides guidance on designing and operating cloud-based systems that are optimized for performance efficiency. This includes recommendations for workload optimization, resource allocation and scaling, architecture design, disaster recovery, and performance monitoring, which help organizations maximize their cloud infrastructure’s performance while minimizing costs.
Cost Optimization
WAF allows organizations to optimize costs for cloud-based systems, helping them to maximize the value of their cloud infrastructure while reducing costs. Adhering to the Well-Architected Framework’s (WAF) cost and process optimization guidelines can uncover opportunities, such as resource allocation, automating processes, and leveraging cost-effective cloud solutions.
Well-Architected Framework Trends
The average reduction in infrastructure costs for companies implementing WAF is 26%.
Organizations implementing WAF reported an average increase of 41% in developer productivity.
67% of IT professionals surveyed reported that WAF helped improve their company’s security posture.
A survey conducted by AWS found that companies following WAF principles were able to achieve a 33% reduction in operational challenges.
DevOps
Streamline your application development journey, from design, development, and deployment – an experience providing full visibility of the steps in-between each process stage, with detailed reports on implementation plans, activities performed, and performance optimization measurements. With our cloud-native knowledge and secure infrastructure, launch applications to market faster.
Key Benefits
Improved collaboration between development & operations teams
Resource optimization & fast-to-market applications
Greater agility in responding to changing business demands
Increased uptime for applications through automated monitoring & maintenance processes
Technical Capabilities
CI/CD Pipelines
CI/CD pipelines enable cloud development teams to deploy applications quickly, automate processes and services for greater efficiency, monitor performance optimization, securely store data, and apps, and ensure reliable and efficient development cycles. Adopting CI/CD pipelines can help businesses stay ahead of the competition while maximizing user experience and success.
Microservices
Microservices allow developers to improve the speed, reliability, and scalability of their products and apps. By decoupling software into independent services, teams can reduce complexity and more easily manage their workflows. This enables faster production cycles and allows businesses to establish an infrastructure more quickly.
DevSecOps
Through DevSecOps, we ensure that your applications are built with the utmost security in mind. From the initial build stage till the end, DevSecOps provides comprehensive visibility into the secure state of application development at all stages including deployment, integration and monitoring. By continually assessing and upgrading security protocols to industry best practices, organizations can remain confident that their products are secure and compliant even after release.
DevOps Trends
DevOps adoption has increased by 17% over the past few years.
High-performing DevOps organizations experience 200% more frequent deployments, 24% faster recovery from failures, and three times lower failure rates.
77% of companies that implement DevOps report a significant improvement in their IT performance.
The DevOps market is projected to reach $17 billion in the upcoming years.
DataOps
Join the shift towards a more collaborative, agile, and data-driven approach to managing and analyzing data to accelerate your data initiatives, reduce time to value, and improve overall quality and reliability.
Key Benefits
Faster time-to-insight
Greater alignment between data initiatives and business goals
Improved data quality
Reduce data management costs
Technical Capabilities
Continuous Integration & Delivery
Continuous Delivery (CD) is the process of automating the deployment of code changes to a staging or production environment. This enables businesses automate the deployment of new data pipelines and ensuring that they are tested and validated before being deployed to production, while reducing the risk of errors, improving data quality, and increasing the speed of data delivery.
Collaborative Development
Collaborative development in DataOps requires an agile and iterative approach to data pipeline development that involves continuous feedback and collaboration between different teams. This means that data pipelines are developed and tested in an agile manner, with regular feedback loops to ensure that they meet the needs of the business.
Monitoring & Alerting
By implementing monitoring and alerting in DataOps, organizations can proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact the performance or reliability of the data pipeline. This helps to improve data quality, reduce downtime, and minimize the risk of data loss.
Security & Compliance
Implementing security and compliance in DataOps allows organizations to apply new technologies and best practices such as data encryption, access controls, audit logging, and vulnerability management. Add the right policies and procedures for handling sensitive data, conducting regular security audits and assessments, and you can ensure that data pipelines are compliant with relevant regulations and standards.
DataOps Trends
A recent survey reveals 92% of companies have a DataOps initiative or plan in place, up from 77% in the previous years.
Deloitte’s recent study found that companies that adopt DataOps are able to deliver high-quality data to stakeholders 50% faster than those that don’t.
ResearchAndMarkets predicts that the global DataOps market will grow from $5 billion in the near future to $15.9 billion.
MLOps
Leverage a suite of capabilities to enable your organization to deploy, manage, and improve machine learning models in production environments. With these capabilities, your organization can accelerate its machine learning projects, improve accuracy and consistency, and reduce costs.
Key Benefits
Increased efficiency & accuracy
Improve ROI of machine learning projects
Faster time-to-market
Scale machine learning operations as needed
Technical Capabilities
Model Monitoring & Feedback Loops
With the help of monitoring & feedback loops, you can ensure that your machine learning models remain accurate and effective over time, and that they continue to provide value to the business. This will help improve data quality, reduce downtime, and minimize the risk of model failure or bias.
Model Versioning & Management
Typically implemented using a combination of tools and technologies such as version control systems, model registries, and deployment pipelines, these tools enable your data teams to track changes to machine learning models, store models in a central repository, and deploy models to production environments in a consistent and automated manner.
Data Management
From data preparation, cleaning, transformation, and augmentation, data management in MLOps can ensure that the data used to train, validate, and test machine learning models is of high quality and well-organized. This helps to improve the accuracy and reliability of machine learning models and ensures that models are developed and deployed in a consistent and efficient manner.
Collaboration
Reduce errors and inconsistencies, improve the accuracy and reliability of models, and ensure that models are developed and deployed in a timely and efficient manner. This critical component helps you focus on promoting communication, coordination, and teamwork among data science teams.
MLOps Trends
Databricks revealed 83% of organizations that are deploying machine learning models in production use MLOps practices, up from 55%.
According to MarketsandMarkets, the global MLOps market size is expected to grow from USD 1.1 billion to USD 4.5 billion in the next three years.
Algorithmia found that 93% of organizations believe that MLOps is important to the success of their machine learning initiatives.
Industry Scenarios
Generating Business Value Across Industries
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Through the cloud’s real-time processing, organizations can monitor any external environmental factors, such as air and water quality, enabling them to be aware of any potentially harmful impacts. This also helps companies ensure their workforce’s safety, avoiding any hazardous operations that may result in a catastrophe.
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This solution helps gather and compile important data from the organization and present it through a dashboard. By bringing together all the IT asset information and developing relations with financial information, it provides complete health of the IT infrastructure that is critical to your business growth.
Leveraging AI and ML algorithms can help healthcare providers make sense of this vast amount of data, providing insights into patient outcomes, identifying patterns and trends, informing diagnosis and treatment recommendations, and managing the data better. These technologies can analyze large datasets of patient records, medical images, and genomic data to make these predictions and recommendations.
The advancements in computing power and declining hardware costs have opened new possibilities in the healthcare industry. High-performance computing clusters can run complex simulations and model diseases, drug interactions, and clinical trials. This can enable healthcare providers to make faster and more accurate decisions, leading to better patient outcomes.
Collaboration and data sharing across multiple organizations are increasingly important in today’s healthcare industry. Establishing collaborative data-sharing platforms and networks can enable seamless data exchange and analysis across hospitals, research institutes, and pharmaceutical companies. This can accelerate research, improve treatment outcomes, and help identify new approaches to healthcare challenges.
Developing new drugs or vaccines is time-consuming and costly for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The use of AI technology can help expedite the drug discovery and development process. AI-powered algorithms can identify potential drug targets, predict drug efficacy and safety, and optimize clinical trial design, leading to faster drug development timelines and better patient outcomes.
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Cloud & Application Modernization Framework
Customer Evidence
Situation
The university faces identity management challenges due to new students entering and others graduating every year, sparking the onboarding and off-boarding of 10,000 to 15,000 identities. The university also has roughly 22,000 staff and faculty identities with diverse needs, complicating standardization.
Solution
The suggested solution was to unify the complexity created by Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) with Azure AD. By doing this, the university could consolidate identity management with the rest of its Microsoft tooling and provide a more unified single sign-on (SSO) capability for faculty, staff, and students within the University of Illinois system.
Impact
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.) consolidated identity management by using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to unify its sprawling estate of highly diverse users. With Azure AD, the university can use metrics collected in the cloud to make decisions at the time of authentication. Consolidating identity management with the rest of its Microsoft tooling allowed the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to provide the convenience of a unified single sign-on (SSO) capability for faculty, staff, and students within the University of Illinois system. This further elevated security and positioned the university for more advanced methods like implementing password-less authentication.
Situation
The issue that Vodafone was facing was that its software engineering work across the company was supported by disparate systems, with different source repositories, change control systems that relied on Word documents and a stasis-inducing attitude to risk and compliance.
Solution
The use of Azure DevOps and GitHub, which allowed Vodafone to streamline and automate their coding, testing, and development processes. This has resulted in a 40% time saving in the global web engineering team and more than 50% time saving in the global app engineering team. In addition, the use of these tools has resulted in a four times increase in developer productivity, without a commensurate increase in headcount.
Impact
Vodafone has been able to respond rapidly to customer requirements on digital channels, which is increasingly important as digital channels account for a larger share of customer interactions. The use of Azure DevOps has enabled Vodafone to move to a completely remote planning process and to experiment and iterate quickly on product development. The business is now beginning to embrace this functionality and is funding teams instead of funding specific projects or deliverables.
Situation
The problem that the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust faced was the need to migrate more than three million clinical documents, plus structured data from the previous EPR system, in over 300 user-defined data capture forms to a new EPR platform. The Trust held legacy data from 1997 to 2013 in its clinical data library, data from 2013 to 2020 in its existing RiO EPR system, and in an associated on-premises data warehouse.
Solution
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust migrated more than three million clinical documents and structured data from the previous electronic patient records (EPR) system, held from 2013 to 2020, to Microsoft Azure and Azure Cognitive Search. They put all the data into a cloud storage solution to make it available to clinicians. The Trust moved most office workloads and file storage from on-premises server rooms to Microsoft Azure, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
Impact
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust was able to migrate more than three million clinical documents from its legacy data and 2013 to 2020 data to a new EPR platform in just four months, using Microsoft Azure’s cloud technology. The solution was developed in-house by the Trust’s IT team, with support from Microsoft’s Fast Track team. The project boosted the skills and engagement of the Trust’s IT team and created a better, cheaper solution that also provided new search capabilities, such as the ability to search handwritten notes using Azure Cognitive Search.
Situation
SPAR NL had a legacy of omnichannel retail systems and custom point-of-sale add-ons that made it challenging to stay on top of industry trends. The architecture did not allow them to create a best-of-breed architecture where they can make changes when something better comes on the market, like a food service solution or online delivery opportunity.
Solution
SPAR NL and HSO replaced the old message-brokering system with a custom solution built on an Azure server-less computing platform with seamless integration services. They created an event-driven, server-less Azure integration platform that connects existing on-premises services and scalable cloud apps. The new platform gave SPAR the agility it needs to respond much faster to changes while providing end-to-end monitoring for quick diagnostics and insights. This Azure integration solution made it possible to get an order right, get the scalability right, and get an order directly to the right systems.
Impact
SPAR NL was able to replace several legacy systems, including a pivotal automation solution that was not available as a cloud service. With the event-driven, server-less Azure integration platform, SPAR NL could connect existing on-premises services and scalable cloud apps, enabling the company to respond faster to changes while providing end-to-end monitoring for quick diagnostics and insights. The new solution allowed SPAR NL to get an order right, get the scalability right, and get an order directly to the right systems. The system’s transparency and monitoring capabilities provided the IT team with an overview of where the data was heading and where the errors were popping up.
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- Cost management
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- Resource consistency
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- Review governance roadmap and approach for single subscription
- Review resource groups
- Active directory, IAM and RBAC
- Review cloud policies
- Finalize governance architecture and migration plan
- Assessment reports
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- WAF assessment covers reliability, cost optimization, operational excellence, performance efficiency, and security
- Review resource groups
- Review cloud policies
- Finalize governance architecture and migration plan
- Security and compliance assessment
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- Review governance roadmap and approach for single subscription
- Active directory governance
- Azure policies, IAM and RBAC
- Resource group governance
- Cost management
- Security and compliance
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- Assess existing DevOps maturity
- Setup git repo and dashboards
- Setup & automate CI/CD pipelines
- Implementation of code quality gate
- Static code analyzer
- Security and code quality reports
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