Assessment and Strategy Development
- Cloud Readiness Assessment:
To evaluate the IT infrastructure, applications, and workloads for cloud compatibility, it is essential to consider data classification for sensitive information that may require special handling or compliance considerations. This assessment ensures that the migration to the cloud aligns with regulatory requirements and security protocols, thereby safeguarding sensitive data while optimizing the overall IT ecosystem for cloud utilization.
- Migration Strategy:
Develop a phased migration plan that prioritizes applications based on complexity, business impact, and dependencies. If complete migration isn't feasible or desired, adopt a hybrid cloud strategy to leverage both on-premises and cloud resources, optimizing performance and flexibility while meeting specific business needs.
Advanced Architecture Design
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR):
Design architectures that maximize uptime and incorporate failover capabilities across various Oracle Cloud regions or availability domains, while implementing disaster recovery strategies that feature cross-region replication and backup solutions. This approach ensures resilience and continuity of services in the event of failures or disasters.
- Scalability and Elasticity:
Design an architecture that incorporates auto-scaling compute instances to dynamically adjust based on workload demands, while implementing efficient load-balancing solutions to distribute traffic effectively across these instances.
- Security Architecture:
Implement network security groups, security lists, and Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN) for effective isolation while leveraging Oracle's security services, such as Cloud Guard and Security Zones, for advanced threat detection and compliance.
Performance Optimization
- Compute Shape Optimization:
To balance cost and performance, advise on the best compute shapes (VM, BM, GPU, etc.) for different workloads.
- Storage Solutions:
Do Design optimal storage solutions using Block Volumes, File Storage, Object Storage, or Archive Storage considering IOPS, throughput, and cost.
- Networking:
Optimize network configurations for low latency and high throughput, possibly integrating with on-premises systems using Fast-Connect.
