Technological evolution proceeds in successive waves, each of which achieves greater results than the previous ones. Each wave requires both strictly IT and purely managerial methods and skills.
We are now living through the cloud era, an approach that introduces into IT a discontinuity with the past that requires innovative techniques and specific skills to be adopted in later times.
Migration to the cloud includes the adoption of new references, such as the DevOps philosophy in software development, cloud platforms such as AWS, infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible), the adoption of best practices of continuous integration and delivery of new software releases.
Sorint.Lab, as a system integrator, supports customers on this new path, helping them achieve the best results with the greatest quality guarantees.
To perform this task at its best Sorint.lab adopted a framework divided into 6 successive stages.
The 6 phases are Business, People and Governance, Platform, Security and Operations. But let’s take a closer look at them.
Business change and cloud adoption: the first three phases
In phase 1, relating to Business, Sorint.lab discusses the strategy and benefits from their point of view with the managers of the client company. At the same time, the risks inherent in the approach are illustrated. It is extremely important to understand these points, especially the risks – old and new – from the very beginning of the application of the new methodology.
In phase 2, People, we talk about people. Each innovation brings with it new skills and a new workflow. At this stage Sorint.lab explains how to manage resources, how to plan skills refocus and how to implement overall organizational change.
Phase 3, Governance, is where change control is activated. It is at this point that it is necessary to detail how to manage programs and projects and how to measure performance in the company. A further element of extraordinary importance is the correct evaluation of licenses in the cloud world: this is where strategic choices are made to obtain the best results at the lowest cost.
Technological change and cloud adoption: the three phases related to ICT
Phase 4 refers to the Platform, i.e. the cloud environment intended to host workloads. In this phase, the new infrastructure and application solutions made possible by the cloud approach are set up. In particular, the computational point of view, the network, the databases and the data management are evaluated, framing the application and development stratification.
In step 5, Security, you consider platform and application security. This aspect is gradually growing in importance, and also thanks to the cloud the results are much more significant today than in the past. The expertise of Sorint.lab enables the company to understand how to manage identity and access in the cloud, how to integrate it into an existing environment, how to guarantee the security of the infrastructure and data protection. These results are managed both during planning (security by design) and in the management of incident responses to detect cyber attack activities.
So we come to the final phase, number 6: Operations. The new architecture implemented so far is based on a high number of services, each with its own indicators. The collection and analysis of indicators is at the same time the tactical phase, of better punctual execution, and strategic, of setting up the improvement over time. In the Operations phase, therefore, Sorint.lab shows the customer how to develop the best monitoring of services, how to achieve application performance, manage resources, alternate releases and changes. The data collected flows into a reporting and analysis system to guarantee business continuity and possible disaster recovery. With the integration of Sorint.lab services related to FinOps, costs are also constantly monitored and optimized.
Full cycle innovation
Technological innovation now allows the company a truly high level of competitiveness. Complete visibility of the entire innovation cycle is required to properly implement a cloud solution. Sorint.lab presents itself as a complete partner to bring customer activities to a properly managed, secure cloud with tactical and strategic control of operations.