CloudStop - Migration Overview

Free Initial Consultation

Understanding Your Unique Needs

At CloudStop, we recognize that every business is distinct, with its own set of goals, challenges, and aspirations. That's why we begin our journey together with a Free Initial Consultation—a crucial step towards gaining a comprehensive understanding of your specific needs.

What to Expect

Our initial consultation serves as the foundation for a successful cloud-to-on-premises migration partnership. During this 30-minute call, we strive to accomplish several essential objectives:

High-Level Assessment: We'll gain a high-level overview of your current cloud infrastructure, identifying key areas that may benefit from migration.

Estimate Expected Savings: Understanding your unique cloud expenses, we'll provide you with an approximate estimate of the potential savings you can achieve through our services.

Consulting Process Explanation: We'll walk you through our consulting process, ensuring you have a clear understanding of the steps involved and the value we bring to your project.

Discuss Further Steps: Together, we'll outline the next steps in your migration journey, offering insights into the path forward.

Tailored to Your Needs

We understand that your business is unlike any other, and your migration goals are equally distinctive. That's why we're committed to scheduling additional free consultation calls as needed. Our priority is to ensure that your unique requirements are thoroughly understood and addressed.

Whether you're seeking guidance on a specific aspect of your migration or need an overarching strategy, our Free Initial Consultation is your opportunity to experience our customer-centric approach firsthand.

Schedule your Free Initial Consultation today and take the first step towards unlocking the potential 2-5x savings from cloud-to-on-premises migration.

Planning Phase

Once both you and CloudStop commit to your cloud-to-on-premises migration project, we start the analysis and planning phase. Our consulting services are designed to bring clarity to your migration strategy and excellence to its execution.

Dive into Details

Our commitment to excellence begins with an in-depth analysis of your cloud usage, workloads, and services. To achieve this, we go into technical details:

Deployment Examination: We review your deployment from every angle, ensuring a holistic understanding of your cloud infrastructure.

Engaging Your Engineers: Our professional team of world-class engineers in distributed system design engages in direct discussions with your engineers, gaining insights that guide our strategy.

Deliverables

At the heart of our consulting services lies the delivery of a detailed migration project plan. This plan is not just a blueprint; it's a roadmap, providing:

Detail execution plan: Crystal-clear guidance on every phase of your migration journey.

Accurate savings estimates: More precise savings estimates, ensuring you can plan your budget with confidence.

The Migration

Seamless Transition, Expert Guidance

The migration phase marks the transition from strategy to execution, and it's a pivotal moment in your cloud-to-on-premises journey. At CloudStop, we bring our expertise to bear, ensuring a seamless migration process characterized by attention to details and expert guidance.

Execution Excellence

During the migration phase, we roll up our sleeves to execute on the previously created migration plan. Our comprehensive services include:

Engineer Training: We empower your engineers with the skills and knowledge needed to manage on-premises infrastructure effectively.

Talent Acquisition: If necessary, we assist in the recruitment of skilled professionals to augment your team, ensuring a capable workforce.

Infrastructure Selection: Our guidance extends to helping you select the right data center from a provided list of vetted data centers, negotiate contracts, and make informed vendor choices.

Configuration and Documentation: We work alongside you to configure on-premises software, providing comprehensive documentation and runbooks for smooth operations.

Additional Services

Ongoing Support Tailored to Your Needs

At CloudStop, our commitment doesn't end with successful migration. We offer a range of additional services to ensure that your on-premises infrastructure operates at peak efficiency, and you continue to reap the benefits of your cloud-to-on-premises transition.

Post-Migration Support

After the migration is complete, you may require varying levels of support to address evolving needs. While we ensure that your company is capable of handling these processes independently, we offer additional services including:

Hourly Rate Support: Should you need assistance, our experts are available on an hourly basis to address any queries or challenges that arise.

Hardware Procurement: We can provide ongoing support for hardware procurement, ensuring that your infrastructure remains up-to-date and efficient.

Data Center and Vendor Management: Our team can manage contracts with data centers and vendors for you, streamlining your operations and optimizing costs.

Tailored Assistance

Our approach to additional services is highly tailored, recognizing that each business is unique. Whether you require occasional guidance or continuous support, we offer solutions that align with your specific requirements.

ROI Estimates

Realizing the Value of Your Investment

We understand that making an investment in cloud-to-on-premises migration consulting services is a strategic decision for your business. We are committed to providing you with a clear understanding of how and when you can expect to realize the value of your investment.

Expectations and Timelines

The timeline for achieving a return on investment (ROI) through our services can vary based on the unique characteristics of each project. You will start seeing savings once the migration is complete, and its duration depends on the complexity of the project:

For smaller projects and businesses with straightforward cloud infrastructures, the migration usually takes from a few hours to a few days.

Projects of moderate complexity typically see the migration taking from a few weeks to a few months.

In the case of larger, highly complex cloud infrastructures, the migration may take up to two years.

Once the migration is complete and the savings materialize, you can expect to return your capital expenses in about 6 months. If you prefer not to make any capital investments at the beginning, that's ok too. In this case we offer renting the hardware from us, until you are comfortable purchasing the hardware.

Significant Bill Reduction

Our consulting services are designed to deliver substantial cost savings, with typical bill reductions ranging from 2x to 5x (equivalent to 50% to 80%). Once the migration is successfully completed, you can expect to see these significant savings reflected in your operational costs.

Initial Capital Expenses

It's important to note that while our consulting services involve an investment, the primary initial capital expenses are related to hardware and infrastructure setup. These capital expenses are typically recouped in a relatively short time frame. For example, a compute server capital expense is often recovered within just six months.

If you are not comfortable with any upfront capital expenses, you can rent required hardware from us until you see the savings, and for small and medium migrations our consulting services can also be paid after the savings materialize.