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Who should support the IT infrastructure?
Typically, an administrator and a developer (optional) keep tabs on the managed IT infrastructure services, and as the system gets more complicated, the number of admins and/or developers can rise as well.
These functions can be performed either by in-house specialists or by an outsourced IT infrastructure support team. If you choose the latter, you don’t need to spend time searching and hiring, as you’ll almost certainly get highly qualified and certified professionals the next day. IT infrastructure support teams can also be combined when an in-house specialist performs system monitoring and, if necessary, turns to outsourced workers for help.
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How do I migrate my on-premise infrastructure to the cloud?
There is no ideal structure for all businesses planning to migrate to the cloud, but there are 4 significant steps:
- Define the strategy and develop your business case, as you need to understand what your cloud requirements are.
- Analyze existing infrastructure, applications, and data to establish their current architecture and choose the appropriate ones to move.
- Based on the needs and the features of the current infrastructure, you need to choose a vendor.
- Specialists, specialized on infrastructure migration services, determine the correct migration flow, paying particular attention to data consistency, integrity, security, and performance.
Our services include infrastructure migration consulting if you need professional assistance with these issues.
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How long does infrastructure migration take?
Several factors can impact an infrastructure migration’s completion time, including:
- Data volume
- Access to the current server
- Server speed and internet connection
- Software version
- Type and infrastructure complexity
The migration time for regularly used e-mail, document management, and communication systems is 1-2 months. The same timeframes apply to migrating more complex server configurations and connecting data centers and networks to the cloud. This migration component will be performed separately from the system migration, so all of the above will take 4 months. You will also need to complete the testing of the system. IT infrastructure consulting services also can cover training your employees to work in the cloud environment.
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What are the challenges of managing IT infrastructure?
The most frequent challenges encountered in IT infrastructure management are:
- Increasing complexity of infrastructure as the business grows
- System integrity (making your system perform correctly according to the original specification of the system under various adversarial conditions)
- Data consistency (relevant for distributed systems)
- Security
- Latency
- Scalability
- Availability (making sure the system is continually available around-the-clock, as required by the specifics of your business processes)
