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4 Pathways to mission-critical infrastructure modernisation

Cloud-enabled computing offers may benefits to help enterprises operate more efficiently and effectively, but it comes at a price. Cloud can be complex, costly, and difficult to manage, requiring significant investment in IT skills and resources.

The adoption of cloud is further complicated by rapid data growth, security concerns, need for policy compliance, and the acceleration of automation and AI adoption. Even so, business leaders are aggressively choosing cloud for the agility, faster time to market, cost optimisation, high availability, and improvements to performance and security.

These factors wheigh heavily on the mids of CIOs as they consider their need for IT Transformation against the challenges of implementing that transformation in their enterprises. The case for digital transformation has never been clearer or more urgent; however, many enterprises still experience a variety of obstacles standing in their way.

Common Impediments to the digital transformation journey include:

Decentralised workloads
As workloads are increasingly spread between existing infrastructure, public cloud, and private cloud, it elevates the focus on IT-enabled business outcomes and drives the need to outsource non-differentiating IT functions.
Modern Operations
As containers and cloud-native environments quickly become mainstream, it's imperative to transform your operating model accordingly for unified observability and management across ITSM and DevSecOps.
Drive to deliver business results
Business outcomes are increasingly dictating the application modernization agenda, driving needs for migration, modernisation, and management
User experience and engagement
Low adoption of self-service capabilities, a poor end-user support experience, and inconsistent new employee onboarding processes all impact productivity, retention, and overall employee engagement.
AI Implementation
AI can bring a huge competitive advantage, but it requires the right mix of strategy, integration, and agile execution to combine cloud, data, governance, your tools ecosystem, and AI algorithms.
Data modernisation and migration
To support analytics and AI, it is critical to modernise and migrate data as a key part of any transformation effort.

In the face of these obstacles, it can be easy to lose sight of business goals and start lifiting and shifting workloads simply for the sake of getting to cloud - sacrificing valuable innovation, insight, and enhancements along the way.

Pathways to transformation

There is often confusion about how to start transformation journey. Many organisations work diligently with their cloud service providers to make intelligent, informed decisions about the design and implementation of their mission-critical infrastrucutre modernisation.

A successful transformation journey typcially begins in one of four ways.


Infrastructure-led transformation

The first step toward IT transformation, this pathway helps enterpries lift and shift workloads before embarking on a full-fledged application-led modernisation journey. Benefits often include cost optimisation, streamlined operations, and significant reduction of technical debt.

Quantum Cloud Technologies first approach allows for agile service delivery, helping to reduce operating costs and accelerate cloud adoption from day one. When combined with Microsoft Azure Services and Cloud Adoption Framework, our methods can help your enterprise overcome some of the most common transfromation challenges, such as business continuity, cost optimisation, and evaluating gaps in your current technology infrastructure.

Business-led transformation

Cloud has become the premier foundation to address current business priorities for digital transformation. The agility, flexibility, and strategic value of cloud multiplies when the cloud transformation strategy aligns with business and digital transfrormation strategy. This consultative-led approach helps with selecting the right hyperscalers, hybrid strategies, network integration architecture, security architecture, guidance on application placement, and aligned ROI models with well-articulated business benefits.

Quantum Cloud Technologies can help accelerate your transfromation progress by articulating a strategy that aligns with your business goals and delivering the blueprints to help you achieve them. We evaluate transfromation readiness and identify any gaps, define your technology vision and process modernisation, and deliver the prioritised roadmap, business case, and technology architectures crucial to helping you meet your goals.

Application-led migration and modernisation

Applications are the backbone of digital transformation initiatives. The shift toward cloud-native technoliges, hyperscaler PaaS services adoption, SRE-based opertaing models, and integration needs all drive application modernisation. Businesses expect faster time to market, improved innovation, improved customer experience, greater agility, cost reduction, IT simplification, and simplified operational benefits when following this transformation path.

Quantum Cloud Technologies has the capabilities and vision for application modernisation with continuous enhancements and expansion, including investments in service delivery assets. In this kind of migraion, we can help with common challenges like risk and regulatory compliance, gaps in skilled resources, integration with existing applications and processes, and creating an architecture to minimise business disruption.

Analytics-led transformation

With the explosion of digitisation, data has become a strategic asset for today's businesses. But despite the volume of data they possess, many enterprises struggle to derive insights from their data, often due to operational inefficiencies, exponential data growth, poor data integrity, and a lack of data managment and engineering skills. Data modernisation, data democratisation, and AI-assisted data governance lead to the monetisation of data and create differentiations for business.

By 2025, an estimated 75% of organisations looking to drive revenue growth will only select vendors with a potfolio of strategy, design, and technology services. Quantum Cloud Technologies can provide skilled experts and data fabrics to help you modernise the data landscape, as well as build and manage a data platform that lets your team focus on deriving critical business insights.

Quantum Cloud Technologies Services

Quantum Cloud Technologies cloud-first approach allows for agile service delivery, helps reduce operating costs, and accelerates cloud adoption from day one. When combined with Microsoft's Azure services and Cloud Adoption Framework, our methods can help your enterprise overcome some of the most common transformation challenges, such as business continuity, cost optimisation, and evaluating gaps in your current technology platforms.

Consulting Services

Work with Quantum Cloud Technologies experst to develop a transformation strategy that's aligned to your unique business goals. We evaluate the gaps between our current and target states, outline a roadmap, and recommend the the resources, organisational culture, and governance necessary for a succesful transformation.

Migration and modernisation services

Building upon the transfromation strategy developed during the consulting phase, our migration and modernisation services can help you execute that strategy, and rehost, refactor, or even rebuild applications depending on your business requirements. Our experts use DevSecOps principles to drive efficient and agile delivery models.

Quantum Cloud Technologies Migration and Modernisation services include:

– Workload Migration: Our migration services include discovery and analysis to understand your environment and interdependencies, as well as migration event planning and execution with detailed runbooks and automation to move workloads to Microsoft Azure without impacting the business.

– Application containerisation and platfrom migration: Our experts can assist with application discovery, remediation, and containerisation, and help you deploy each application to your chosen container platfrom on Microsoft Azure

Cloud Development Services

Our cloud experts can provide design and implementation solutions for workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. We will help you enable further digital transformation with a standard, scalable, security-rich cloud platform, built with deep technology expertise and proven accelerators to drive agility, efficiency, securty, and predictability.

Managed Services

We provide intelligent, pre-emptive management services for your entire Microsoft Azure environment, including IaaS, PaaS, and containers, as well as hybrid extensions of your cloud serices and landing zone provisioning. Our 24x7 management services employ cloud-native management, modern service management, and transfrom-to-cloud operating models to maintain compliance and optimise your environment.

Network Transformation Services

Our network configuration services can seamlessly integrate network components both on premises and on Microsoft Azure cloud, while modernisation services ensure the implementation of 5G and software-defined networking.

Data and AI Services

Realise more value from your data, applications, and AI capabilities with a modern approach to data and data management. We will help you derive insights from your data using Azure Synapse, Azure Big Data, and Azure AI to facilitate intelligent decision-making.

Cyber resiliency and security services

No matter where you are in your transformation journey, security is vital. Maintain business continuity and constantly adapt to new threats and regulatory standards with our advisory-led managed services for Microsoft Azure workloads, with resiliency orchestration to manage cyber threats, maintain availability, minimise the risk of data loss, and facilitate a rapid return to business operations.