Migrating to the cloud is just the first step in a journey of transformation and scalability for critical applications. For businesses to harness the true power of the cloud, it’s imperative to modernize applications with cloud-native strategies.

This is especially crucial for companies entrenched in legacy Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, SQL Server, and .NET frameworks, which weren't originally crafted for cloud environments. These legacy systems often hinder a business's ability to scale efficiently and innovate rapidly to remain competitive. However, it takes a highly experienced and knowledgeable team to modernize your Windows applications successfully.

ClearScale employs a 3 phase process that can help your business move to cloud in a way that is cost optimized, while minimizing the transplantation of technical debt through the development of a clear modernization roadmap based on your business goals. These phases are:

Inspect

-Evaluate the business case based on current estate and modernization goals using AWS native and third-party tooling

-Identify AWS programs that can assist based on estate specifics

Initiate

-Lay the AWS foundation based on requirements gathered in Inspect

-Prepared CI/CD, data migration, other pipelines as appropriate

-Security and compliance standard, frameworks, and tooling deployed

Implement

-Migrate “lift and shift’ candidates

-Modernize according to identified business requirements

-Refactor fully cloud native candidate

-Optimize for “day 2” operations

ClearScale stands out with its experienced team of solution architects, engineers, and developers, who bring a wealth of knowledge in navigating the complexities of modernizing Microsoft environments within AWS. Our approach is tailored to blend Microsoft's robust application frameworks with AWS's powerful cloud capabilities. By focusing on these AWS services tailored for Microsoft applications, ClearScale ensure s that your business not only transitions smoothly to a modern cloud infrastructure but also realizes the full potential of cloud-native features for enhanced performance, scalability, and innovation.

Deliverables

Select from a range of options, including

-Automated code complexity scanning to understand three levels of dependency at the application layer using Cast Software Automated Software Intelligence

-Containerization and/or serverless microservices deployment

-CI/CD for faster, more predictable release cycles

-Cloud-native, fully managed, purpose-fit data stores

-Managed Microsoft such as Active Directory, SQL Server, etc.

-AI/ML managed services, MLOps & AIOps