Migration ++
HCL’s Engineering Services - Online practice has launched Migration++ consulting framework to fuel and speed up the cloud journey of enterprises. HCL Migration++ provides a rich set of processes, tools and frameworks to enable customers to not only migrate their business to Windows Azure but also effectively manage applications on Windows Azure. Migration++ has three key loosely coupled modules called Application Assessment, Migration and Execution/ Management.
Salient Features of Migration++ are:
- Consulting Assessment Framework to guide the customer about whether or not their product /application is right for Windows Azure. It provides high level detailed assessment reports based on application & business characteristics, thereby enabling right decisions
- Tools driven code assessment for .NET application which reduces human error and provides right complexity of migration
- Application re-architecture consulting to adhere to cloud standards
- Data migration from on-premise apps to SQL Azure/ Azure Table/ Blobs
- Customized testing process for effective utilization of cloud infrastructure
- Strong scenarios/ reusable component library to smoothen Windows Azure adoption (security, hybrid scenario, diagnostic, auto scale up/ down)
- "Cirrus" multi-threaded framework to provide end-to-end application management on Windows Azure
Cirrus is HCL's ITSM tool which provides end-to-end application management on Windows Azure. The various features and benefits of Cirrus are:
- End-to-end storage management
- Application performance monitoring/ Event viewer monitoring
- Data Migration/ Export/ Import
- Release management (smooth deployment)
- Subscription management - manage multiple accounts from same window
- Built on cutting-edge technologies to give a modern user experience to the end customer
