Google Cloud Platform Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
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Google Cloud Platform Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
The ongoing impact of the pandemic continues to drive digital innovation and the adoption of cloud services, as highlighted by Gartner. Each company’s unique factors, including vision, future plans, budget, infrastructure, organizational structure, compliance requirements, and more, play a significant role in shaping their cloud journey. The Google Cloud Platform Cloud Adoption Framework (GCP CAF) offers a standardized blueprint for efficiently migrating, configuring, and managing IT workloads, databases, and assets on the Google Cloud Platform. This framework simplifies the cloud migration and modernization process, enabling companies to identify critical actions and goals related to mission-critical assets, applications, and databases. With CertCube Labs, you’ll seamlessly integrate the right set of native tools and services for comprehensive monitoring, asset management, and security.
Google CAF empowers you to craft the ideal migration strategy based on your business priorities and develop a holistic plan with realistic ROI estimates. Moreover, CertCube Labs facilitates the implementation of intelligent cost optimization and automation solutions, enhancing the management of cloud workloads while maximizing agility, availability, and cost savings. Our team of experts will guide you through your cloud journey, covering Discovery, Assessment, and Migration phases. We also assist enterprises in identifying the most suitable strategy tailored to their specific business use cases, from selecting the workloads to migrate to cost-effective migration strategies. Trust CertCube Labs to optimize your cloud transition for success.
FIVE stages of the Google Cloud Adoption Framework
Define the Correct Strategy
In the crucial initial stage, we closely analyze your business, its motivations, and outcomes:
- Understanding Business Motivation: Assessing current landscapes, applications, and regulations, preparing for cloud adoption.
- Identifying Business Outcomes: Defining fiscal, agility, performance, security, compliance, and reach objectives.
- Building the Business Case: Demonstrating cost reduction, asset recovery, and efficiency improvements.
- Formulating Vision, Strategy, Adoption Plan: Creating a clear cloud strategy aligned with the business vision and a detailed plan for adoption.
Cloud Adoption Plan
The cloud adoption process is about turning strategy into reality:
- Understanding the Current IT Landscape: We provide a thorough analysis of your existing IT environment, encompassing Network, Security, Applications, OS, and Databases, including dependency mapping for resilience.
- Migration Blueprint: Our migration experts create a detailed plan that includes strategy, methodology, and project milestones.
Get Ready for Migration
Step 1: Setting Up the Environment
Our team prepares the landing zone design, covering network, security, compute, storage, security controls, cloud platform operations, and governance policies. The blueprint focuses on the organization’s standard operating procedures concerning security and governance.
Adopt the Right Migration Strategy
Step 1: Intuitive Selection and Innovation with the 6Rs
In the process of modernizing older applications, Certcube Labs simplifies the choice among the well-known 6Rs:
- REPURCHASE: Enterprises transition from on-prem licenses to cloud-based versions of the same software, essentially repurchasing the license.
- REHOST: Identify applications and existing workloads for migration and perform a lift-and-shift to the cloud ecosystem.
- REPLATFORM: Similar to rehosting, this approach involves customizations to ensure optimal performance on the cloud.
- REFACTOR/RE-ARCHITECT: This more intensive approach involves significant overhauls, often at the codebase level, to migrate existing on-prem applications, databases, and workloads to the cloud.
- RETIRE: Recognize and retire redundant applications or platforms that contribute to unnecessary operational costs, replacing them with more cloud-friendly alternatives.
- RETAIN: Some high-performing legacy on-prem applications may be retained, especially if they are integral to critical projects.
Robust Governance for End to End Ownership
The Google governance assessment thoroughly maps the entire customer network, systems, and applications on Google Cloud to ensure scalability, high performance, and resilience while maintaining compliance. CertCube Labs offers proactive optimization of Google governance tools to establish robust governance processes in line with the organization’s operating procedures, ensuring continuity, compliance, cost efficiency, and scalability of operations.
CertCube Labs, a leading application-focused Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) and a Google Cloud Partner, boasts extensive experience in safeguarding infrastructure, data, and operations for over 500 enterprises across diverse industry sectors. As the world’s foremost application-centric managed cloud service provider, we possess dedicated global expertise in cloud cybersecurity management, making us the ideal partner for fortifying your IT environment on Google Cloud.
Our engineers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform’s customized cloud solutions to provide top-tier uptime, exceptional availability, and world-class intelligent risk management. This is accomplished through a range of advanced features and capabilities, ensuring the highest level of security and performance for your cloud-based assets.
Accelerated Cloud Decisions
Leverage CertCube Labs’ unique factory-based approach to expedite your cloud migration journey. CertCube Labs identifies the essential tools and services required for a seamless migration, adhering to strict timelines while establishing a robust business case and migration strategy. This ensures consistent availability, agility, and zero data loss, regardless of your landscape’s complexity or scale.
Dependency, Discovery, & Planning
CertCube Labs conducts various activities, including technical assessments, hardware/software evaluations, and application dependency mapping, to enhance the likelihood of a seamless and efficient cloud migration process. Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud Adoption Framework (GCP CAF) prioritizes the readiness of your application’s data and infrastructure to deliver optimal outcomes.
Optimized Native Cloud-Environment
CertCube Labs offers cloud-native cybersecurity solutions and services, such as Advanced MDR (Managed Detection and Response) and XDR (Extended Detection and Response), SIEM-SOAR (Security Information and Event Management – Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response), ATP (Advanced Threat Protection), Self-Healing mechanisms, Threat Intelligence, and more, spanning
Cost, Clarity and Control
The Google Cloud Migration Framework is a cost-effective solution, enriched with CertCube Labs’ intelligent cloud cost optimization strategies, to minimize extraneous expenditures while upholding quality and security standards.
Security
CertCube Labs provides advanced cloud security products like Cloud Asset Inventory and Cloud Key Management, which, when paired with their Self-Healing Operations platform (SHOP), significantly enhance infrastructure security. These solutions offer features such as auto-remediation and self-healing, ensuring a seamless and automated process for cloud migration, modernization, and managed services with minimal human intervention.
Availability and Scalability
The GCP Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) also thoroughly assesses your organization’s compliance measures and provides a detailed report on necessary updates. CertCube Labs’ advanced managed service capabilities additionally include:
- Platform-specific built-in compliance tools.
- Configuration management features.
- Guidance resources to help you avoid fines and penalties.
Thorough Compliance Management
The GCP Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) will thoroughly assess your organization’s compliance measures and create a detailed report on required updates. Additionally, CertCube Labs’ advanced managed service capabilities offer:
- Platform-specific built-in compliance tools.
- Configuration management features.
- Guidance resources to help you avoid fines and penalties.