The Ecosystem Intelligent and Intuitive: Why Application Modernization on the Google Cloud Platform Matters?

In the global hyperscaler cloud race, Google Cloud is a relatively young competitor. However, what matters more is that the platform is already one of the Top three cloud service providers across the globe. What tunes perfectly to fuel this rise and its accelerated enterprise adoption across the globe is Google’s familiarity amongst the world’s billions equally balanced by an advanced cloud native ecosystem enriched with Google’s latest digital innovations; AI, Automation, Analytics, IT modernization solutions and services. Google, for billions of Millennials and Gen Z across the globe, is synonymous to the internet. And, no surprise, they are today’s fast booming entrepreneurs or business mentors. The popularity of Google Cloud is hence firmly established. But, why is the cloud ecosystem unprecedently promising for an enterprise’s application modernization functionalities, across landscape sizes and complexities? Filtering out the familiarity and the intuitiveness factors, Google Cloud imbibes the best of technologies in the IT universe, trading with the world’s leading tech providers and innovation architects.

This results in a cloud ecosystem that’s extensively flexible, super-innovative, and highly intelligent and analytics-driven; something that best fits the modern business’ operational cause as they juggle with hundreds of applications daily and millions of contemporary choices to address ever-fluctuating market demands. To top it all, Google Cloud’s increasing focus to spread its footprint beyond the conventional datacenter perimeters has resulted in an arsenal of services catering to hybrid and multi-cloud applications, right to the edge and endpoint levels. Top-notch flexibility paired with an intuitive, intelligent ecosystem that can be seamlessly extended and applied to an organization’s IT presence anywhere (remote offices, datacenters, edge, multiple clouds, IoT, endpoints) makes it a smart new option to tackle application modernization duties.

Automation is the Top priority for enterprises adopting application modernization

Application Modernization saves 15-35% annual infra savings including upto 70% costs on hardware, software, and resources

65% organizations would aim to aggressively modernize applications by 2023 around the world

Cloud4C Named a Visionary in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services 2021

Designed on Google Cloud Platform. Implemented and Managed by Cloud4C

With Cloud4C, the world’s largest end-to-end application-focused cloud managed service provider and a trusted Google Cloud MSP, avail a transformative application modernization experience on the GCP cloud. Rehost, re-platform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild adopted enterprise applications based on enterprise objectives and existing landscape assessment.

Integrate GCP-native tools and services for seamless hybrid and multi-cloud application management, smart cloud-native application development with microservice competencies, streamlined API management across multiple ecosystems, serverless operations architecture designs, CI/CD establishments, mainframe modernization, Site Reliability Engineering. Leverage Cloud4C proprietary solutions and frameworks to guarantee industry-best availability and application performance along with top-notch security and end-to-end monitoring, 24/7/365 for hybrid and multi cloud environments powered by the Google Cloud. Accelerate your product lifecycles including DevOps industry leading tools, go-to-market timelines of your innovations at best ROI.

Build the foundations to a truly agile enterprise.

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Why Modernize Applications using Google Cloud Solutions: Flexibility, Intelligence, and Seamless Expanse

Common Challenges

Managed Application Benefits

Rising costs for application upgrades
Lack of Universality
Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility
Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual
Delays in Application Issue Management
Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise
Pertaining application risks at multiple levels
Regulatory and compliance hassles
Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure
Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities
illustration of upgrade benefit of application modernization with gcp

Rising costs for application upgrades

  • With applications modernized on the Google cloud, achieve excellent, near real-time application upgrade capabilities at a flexible, pay-as-you-use model.
  • Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild enterprise applications with ease to leverage the advanced benefits of GCP.
  • With GCP-powered modern application development environments, embrace cloud-native architectures for management agility, automate processes to truncate costs at every stage of the application management journey
illustration of universality benefit of application modernization with gcp

Lack of Universality

  • Gain a universal dashboard overview and control for all applications modernized on the Google Cloud including private IT environments, private clouds, multiple adopted clouds, third party enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Infosys, Databases)
  • Achieve seamless integration between heterogeneous, complex environments (applications, backend systems, and data) via GCP native connectors and APIs such as Apigee API Management, Apigee Integration, API Gateway, AppSheet, etc.
illustration of application performance benefit of application modernization with gcp

Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

  • Quickly deploy web apps and APIs on the Google Cloud. Seamlessly develop with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or PHP, in containers using native containerization solutions such as Google Kubernetes Engine, Container Registry, Cloud Build, Deep Learning Containers, etc.
  • Scale application performance basis requirements, gain high availability of 99.95%, and hyper agility. Leverage Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, App Engine, Workflows for effective traffic routing, load balancing with serverless operations structures.
illustration of business contintuity benefit of application modernization with gcp

Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

  • Zero disruptions to backend application infra including servers, networks, storage, compute on the cloud. Enhance Go-to-Market timelines.
  • Preserve business as usual and lower transition costs with a dedicated Migration Factory approach. Achieve zero friction application migration such as .NET web apps to the cloud in three, automated steps
  • Augment application DevOps and performance agility with microservice architectures. Embrace serverless computing, container architectures on GCP. Embrace Google Kubernetes, Container Registry, Cloud Build, Knative for containerization purposes, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions for serverless purposes, and Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, Memorystore, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL for database management.
illustration of application issue management benefit of application modernization with gcp

Delays in Application Issue Management

  • Specialized consultants ensure all application migration, modernization, and management issues are met with ease, guaranteeing 24/7 monitoring and application support
  • Automate issue alerts and initiate remedy protocols. Perform automated monitoring and smart risk management with ease.
illustration of application administration benefit of application modernization with gcp

Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

  • Bid adieu to all application management resource hassles with dedicated full stack development, engineering, maintenance, risk handling, application migration, modernization, and delivery experts acting as an extended client team
  • Gain in-depth strategic, advisory, and consulting for application modernization and management end-to-end
illustration of application risk management benefit of application modernization with gcp

Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

  • Bolster application security with dedicated security frameworks, architectures firmly integrated within your Organizational DevOps, ITSM.
  • Achieve multilayered enterprise-grade application security across code, delivery pipelines, app runtimes, and databases. Utilize automated tools for scanning, vulnerability management, and encrypting. Build rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications
  • Leverage cutting-edge cloud-native security solutions such as Cloud IAM, Cloud Key Management, Confidential Computing, Cloud Data Loss Prevention, Secret Manager, Access Transparency, Security Command Center, etc
illustration of regulatory and compliance management benefit of application modernization with gcp

Regulatory and compliance hassles

  • Applications backed and hosted on compliant-ready architectures, platforms, systems including local regulations, data residency laws, international standards - PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2.
  • Avail specialized cloud-native tools to govern and implement compliance checks across adopted systems. Improve threat protection and extensive compliance checks with frequent audits and cloud governance.
illustration of DR, backend infra mangagement benefit of application modernization with gcp

Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

  • Secure your Business Continuity Planning with automated Enterprise Applications Recovery-backup, stringent RTO/RPO, DR Drills, or specialized DRaaS solution on cloud
  • Host your applications, backend data center assets including SaaS applications, web applications, critical enterprise systems on your closest location or across multiple regions to minimize disaster risks. Choose your nearest GCP hosting location.
  • Build personalized mobile workforce applications to enable fully configured, secure, cloud-hosted, and collaborative remote development environments
illustration of digital transformation benefit of application modernization with gcp

Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

  • Enhance application performance, responsiveness, interactivity, user experience with cutting-edge automation solutions including RPA. Streamline CI/CD with GCP Cloud Build, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Source Repositories, etc.
  • Maximize intelligent automation in application operations with fully modern application development platforms including automated logging, scaling, availability, and predictive alerting.
  • Avail cloud-native and proprietary AI, Data Analytics solutions to unlock enterprise intelligence and data-powered decision-making. Build application innovation capabilities with Vertex AI, AutoML, Vision AI, Dialogflow, BigQuery, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Composer, etc

Common Challenges

  • Rising costs for application upgrades

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of upgrade benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Rising costs for application upgrades

    • With applications modernized on the Google cloud, achieve excellent, near real-time application upgrade capabilities at a flexible, pay-as-you-use model.
    • Rehost, replatform, replace, re-architect, or rebuild enterprise applications with ease to leverage the advanced benefits of GCP.
    • With GCP-powered modern application development environments, embrace cloud-native architectures for management agility, automate processes to truncate costs at every stage of the application management journey
  • Lack of Universality

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of universality benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Lack of Universality

    • Gain a universal dashboard overview and control for all applications modernized on the Google Cloud including private IT environments, private clouds, multiple adopted clouds, third party enterprise systems (SAP, Oracle, Infosys, Databases)
    • Achieve seamless integration between heterogeneous, complex environments (applications, backend systems, and data) via GCP native connectors and APIs such as Apigee API Management, Apigee Integration, API Gateway, AppSheet, etc.
  • Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of application performance benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Stunted application performance with limited scalability and flexibility

    • Quickly deploy web apps and APIs on the Google Cloud. Seamlessly develop with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or PHP, in containers using native containerization solutions such as Google Kubernetes Engine, Container Registry, Cloud Build, Deep Learning Containers, etc.
    • Scale application performance basis requirements, gain high availability of 99.95%, and hyper agility. Leverage Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, App Engine, Workflows for effective traffic routing, load balancing with serverless operations structures.
  • Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of business contintuity benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Operational disruptions, threatening business as usual

    • Zero disruptions to backend application infra including servers, networks, storage, compute on the cloud. Enhance Go-to-Market timelines.
    • Preserve business as usual and lower transition costs with a dedicated Migration Factory approach. Achieve zero friction application migration such as .NET web apps to the cloud in three, automated steps
    • Augment application DevOps and performance agility with microservice architectures. Embrace serverless computing, container architectures on GCP. Embrace Google Kubernetes, Container Registry, Cloud Build, Knative for containerization purposes, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions for serverless purposes, and Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, Memorystore, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL for database management.
  • Delays in Application Issue Management

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of application issue management benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Delays in Application Issue Management

    • Specialized consultants ensure all application migration, modernization, and management issues are met with ease, guaranteeing 24/7 monitoring and application support
    • Automate issue alerts and initiate remedy protocols. Perform automated monitoring and smart risk management with ease.
  • Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of application administration benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Lack of end-to-end application administration expertise

    • Bid adieu to all application management resource hassles with dedicated full stack development, engineering, maintenance, risk handling, application migration, modernization, and delivery experts acting as an extended client team
    • Gain in-depth strategic, advisory, and consulting for application modernization and management end-to-end
  • Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of application risk management benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Pertaining application risks at multiple levels

    • Bolster application security with dedicated security frameworks, architectures firmly integrated within your Organizational DevOps, ITSM.
    • Achieve multilayered enterprise-grade application security across code, delivery pipelines, app runtimes, and databases. Utilize automated tools for scanning, vulnerability management, and encrypting. Build rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications
    • Leverage cutting-edge cloud-native security solutions such as Cloud IAM, Cloud Key Management, Confidential Computing, Cloud Data Loss Prevention, Secret Manager, Access Transparency, Security Command Center, etc
  • Regulatory and compliance hassles

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of regulatory and compliance management benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Regulatory and compliance hassles

    • Applications backed and hosted on compliant-ready architectures, platforms, systems including local regulations, data residency laws, international standards - PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2.
    • Avail specialized cloud-native tools to govern and implement compliance checks across adopted systems. Improve threat protection and extensive compliance checks with frequent audits and cloud governance.
  • Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of DR, backend infra mangagement benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Disaster Recovery Lapses, mismanagement of backend infrastructure

    • Secure your Business Continuity Planning with automated Enterprise Applications Recovery-backup, stringent RTO/RPO, DR Drills, or specialized DRaaS solution on cloud
    • Host your applications, backend data center assets including SaaS applications, web applications, critical enterprise systems on your closest location or across multiple regions to minimize disaster risks. Choose your nearest GCP hosting location.
    • Build personalized mobile workforce applications to enable fully configured, secure, cloud-hosted, and collaborative remote development environments
  • Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

    Managed Application Benefits

    illustration of digital transformation benefit of application modernization with gcp

    Limited Digital Transformation Capabilities. Overflow of data generation with little analytical capabilities

    • Enhance application performance, responsiveness, interactivity, user experience with cutting-edge automation solutions including RPA. Streamline CI/CD with GCP Cloud Build, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Source Repositories, etc.
    • Maximize intelligent automation in application operations with fully modern application development platforms including automated logging, scaling, availability, and predictive alerting.
    • Avail cloud-native and proprietary AI, Data Analytics solutions to unlock enterprise intelligence and data-powered decision-making. Build application innovation capabilities with Vertex AI, AutoML, Vision AI, Dialogflow, BigQuery, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Composer, etc

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Advance your Application Modernization Services on the Google Cloud with Cloud4C: Automated, AIOps-powered Offerings

The cloud managed services world is fast witnessing a transition. With rising consumer demands, high-fidelity digital experiences, large-scale databases, firms can no longer afford to just meet their infra demands from the cloud while managing everything upwards privately. Businesses, hence, are increasingly inclining towards MSPs like Cloud4C that promise end-to-end ITOps management on the cloud from the infra till application layer under a single SLA. Application modernization, in that context, evolves from a singular ask to an important segment fitting the holistic cloud transformation puzzle.

Cloud4C, an AIOps-driven end-to-end cloud migration, modernization, and management services company, guarantees high-quality application modernization experiences at maximum availability, unprecedented agility, and enhanced scalability at zero disruption to business as usual. With Cloud4C, also integrate cutting-edge automation solutions with state-of-the-art security and process analytics for consistent development at best outputs, intelligence to ensure hyper-performance, innovative outcomes at the most optimized expenses.

Cloud4C collaborates with Google Cloud to Build Unique Center of Excellence

Delivering tailored, innovative, and use-case specific solutions and services has always been the aim for Cloud4C. With Google Cloud’s rapidly enhancing ecosystem and solutions portfolio, Cloud4C envisioned a dedicated Center of Excellence (CoE) addressing mission-critical enterprise infra, app, and workload transformations on the Google Cloud. Cloud4C’s latest CoE development for SAP and Anthos powered by Google Cloud is a testimony to that vision.

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The 6 R Application Modernization Framework on Google Cloud: Which Model fits your Enterprise Best?

Application modernization on the cloud is a dire necessity to revitalize IT operations and scale up delivery, service experiences. However, most enterprises only lift and shift applications and end up with massively limited, degraded performances due to the lack of sufficient app modernization on cloud experts. Cloud4C’s exhaustive cloud strategy, development, full-stack architecture, maintenance, and security engineers act as an extended team to modernize a client’s application environment end-to-end on the Google Cloud.

With the advanced 6 R Methodology, rehash and reboot your applications to unlock extra agility, enhanced performance, and end-user excellence powered by an intelligent GCP backend. Modernize on-premise legacy systems and existing applications. Optimize applications, manage applications with consistent development and reliability engineering to innovate faster according to business needs and customer demands.

repurchase modernization strategy icon in google cloud application modernization services

REPURCHASE (Drop and Shop)

This phase involves minimalistic transformation to migrate to a cloud-based environment. The enterprise drops the existing on-prem license of the software being used and moves onto the cloud-based version of the same software, essentially repurchasing the license.

 rehost modernization strategy icon in google cloud application modernization services

REHOST (Lift and Shift)

Identify the applications and existing workloads to be migrated and lift and shift them to the cloud ecosystem. The migration involves cutting-edge native tools and support services that help move the application stack from the existing on-prem to the cloud environment

 replatform modernization strategy icon in google cloud application modernization services

REPLATFORM (Lift, Change, Shift)

This process involves the same methodology as that of rehosting platforms and applications from the on-prem environment to the cloud ecosystem. However, here, some customizations are made to ensure that the platforms run best on the cloud.

refactor modernization strategy icon in google cloud application modernization services

REFACTOR/RE-ARCHITECT

This phase or approach involves the most effort and expenses as the existing on-prem applications, databases, and workloads are significantly over-hauled, often at the codebase levels, to move them to the cloud. A common approach in this phase is to break up monolithic structures into microservice architectures for advanced performance on the cloud. Hence, such an approach ensures leveraging the best features of the cloud as the software is redesigned to match the cloud’s native environment.

retire modernization strategy icon in google cloud application modernization services

RETIRE

This practice involves the recognition of applications or platforms that are redundant and would cause unnecessary load/overprovisioning on the cloud thereby shooting up operational costs. Under such circumstances, firms might opine to retire and replace the application altogether in favor of a cloud-friendlier version.

retain modernization strategy icon in google cloud application modernization services

RETAIN

Businesses might opt to keep some legacy, on-prem applications running as they are delivering high performances and linked to critical projects. In such a case, the other core systems might run from the cloud and the retained on-prem applications might operate standalone or in sync with the cloud apps via APIs.

A Deep Dive into the Cloud4C Application Modernization and Digital Transformation Services with Google Cloud Solutions

Avail Cloud4C’s industry-leading Migration Factory approach to streamline your enterprise and SaaS application workloads and resources, PaaS platforms migration on GCP. With this assembly-line methodology implemented by cutting-edge automation processes and administrative experts, gain high ROI value, fast deploy/provision cloud infrastructure, simplify on-demand provisioning of cloud stacks, and integrate seamlessly with existing ITSM processes. Leverage GCP-native solutions to migrate .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based applications, Linux and Windows-based app clusters and containers to Google cloud in just simple, automated steps. Exercise a lean application lifecycle environment across the entire organization including CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps augmentation, and SysOps processes. Gain breakthrough application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and always-on availability.

With the power of GCP-native architecture, Cloud4C helps integrate, streamline, and unlock hyper performance for key industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, enterprise operations, information management, and more. Avail end-to-end modernization, implementation support for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, opentext, industry applications on Google Cloud Platform. Seamlessly build, deploy, test, run, and scale web applications, integrate with virtualized networks, embed containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and deploy enterprise-grade security and compliance. Achieve high availability of 99.95% and seamlessly scale applications globally with zero disruption.

Host, manage, administer, and secure databases for mission-critical enterprise ERP, CRM, CMS, and related applications including on-prem, Edge, and IoT environments with ease on the Google Cloud. Cloud4C addresses SQL OpenSource Database applications such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL; SQL commercial database applications such as IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP ASE, SAP HANA; NoSQL Open source database applications such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, redis, etc. Fully managed cloud-based databases ensure high data availability, scalability, and easy access to cutting-edge analytical solutions. Embed top-notch security solutions and cloud-based firewalls for world-class data protection.

Integrity of applications and their backend architectures, databases is an essential condition to achieve seamless frontend operations across diverse IT landscapes. With applications transited and modernized on the Google cloud, bolster application integrity with multi-purpose APIs and event-driven architectures. The latter allows easy synchronization of divergent applications with other databases, apps, systems, platforms, and backend infra as and when required. Also, enhance remote workflow management with configurable, customizable, and fully administered remote development environments, remote workforce applications, and more.

A modernized DevOps environment is critical to accelerate your product delivery lifecycle. With DevOps methodologies embraced on and powered by Microsoft Azure, embrace an automated, agile, and highly scalable ecosystem across the entire Software Development Lifecycle. Embed key technologies such as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for Azure, orchestration, Infrastructure as a Code to align your DevOps environment across multiple application landscapes. Leverage Cloud4C’s key toolkit expertise in platform architectures, configuration, CI/CD pipeline, coding, systems building, automation, and testing to boost your DevOps and application practices on the cloud. With the Azure advantage, develop applications on the language of choice - .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of choice running on Windows or Linux, enhance developer productivity, and streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Selenium, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Azure Container Registry. Leverage Azure native automation solutions to achieve hyper-agile app release and go-to-market timelines without compromising availability, scalability, user experience, and continuity. Embed security by design in the application DevOps lifecycle: DevSecOps.

The world is rapidly transcending from monolithic architectures that have powered legacy applications and software for decades. The major issue with such traditional structures is in their unparalleled rigidity, making life difficult for engineers to spot sneaky code errors or make major updates. With the cloud revolution powering modernized development environments, break up legacy applications and design new software in a powerful modularized fashion: abstracted components dedicated to running critical functions, weaved together into a central whole via advanced tools. Such modularized, self-functioning software segments makes it easy to pinpoint errors, push upgrades, and automate the delivery process for faster provisioning and running into live environments. This also assists in load balancing and traffic management. Individual server functions running each of the microservice segments can be independently scaled up or down based on traffic requirements without affecting the entire software’s performance, thereby reducing unnecessary server overprovisioning and reducing costs.

If microservices is considered to transform the way applications and software are developed or designed, Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service ensures the same are run on the cloud in an equally agile and transformative manner. Under this process, once the developed code is pushed to the cloud, the microservice modules or functions are assigned independent servers/fire only when the particular function is called, thereby reducing idle running or overprovisioning. Hence, under this architecture, the enterprise simply needs to push the modules to the cloud environment and the latter takes care of the rest, even to the point of assigning servers to run the same. Embrace the Functions-as-a-Service approach for the app modernization process including frontend apps, middleware, OS, libraries, frameworks, APIs, virtual machines, and more. Integrate microservices architecture with containerization to leverage FaaS on GCP to the fullest. With serverless event processing, design and develop the architecture of an event-driven application that ingests data streams, processes the same on the cloud, and synchronizes the results back to back-end databases at zero disruption, null data loss, and ultra-low latency. Leverage GCP native tools to enable serverless operations: Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, etc

With numerous cloud-native tools, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated Security Operations Center managed services, and cybersecurity experts, gain end-to-end protection of all your application assets. Leverage the advanced Managed Detection and Response platform for automated threat, malware management. Lower Mean Time to Detect and Response across all touchpoints, avail complete end-point security and utilize advanced data analytics to gain unique security management insights. Avail 24/7 Monitoring, Identity, and Access Management, Firewalls management, API security, app database threat management, network monitoring with dedicated cloud-native tools. Embrace game-changing preventive maintenance capabilities with Cloud4C’s proprietary SHOP (Self-Healing Operations Platform).

With Cloud4C’s application managed services for Google Cloud, avail a globally compliant-ready application architecture that includes stringent adherence to local-national-global regulations such as PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2. Adhere to data residency and locality laws easily with secure, in-country hosting. Embrace stringent compliance checks over your application assets. Let compliance issues never deter your application functionalities and the organization’s progress again.

Streamlined integrated Disaster Recovery tools and solutions to help businesses achieve near-zero operational outage. Avail advanced automated backup, recovery, and disaster management solutions for your applications and related assets with stringent, custom RPO/RTO standards. Build your custom DR strategy on the Google cloud leveraging DRaaS architecture, adopt tailored solutions for business processes, streamline-protect data storage platforms, and opt for periodic DR drills for maximum impact. Avail geo-native GCP hosting for maximum application availability, scalability, performance agility, and uncompromised continuity.

With Cloud4C’s turnkey hyperautomation solution, you can discover the right business processes for automation, extract data from even unstructured sources, automate complex tasks, strategically scale automation across your enterprise and do much more. With our proven process analytics and automation expertise, our certified automation experts have helped many organizations automate some of their core tasks, and transform their businesses.Leverage proprietary cutting-edge AI, Big Data, Analytics, RPA, and automation tools and solutions to modernize application processes, workflows, data and embrace intelligent, informed decision-making capabilities. With applications powered on the Google cloud backend, choose from hundreds of advanced cloud-native tools and business applications to streamline asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation capabilities with cloud Machine learning tools with Vertex AI, AutoML, Vision AI, Dialogflow, BigQuery, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Composer, AI Infrastructure, Cloud Natural Language, AutoML Tables, etc. GCP’s fully modernized development platform provides automated logging, scaling and high availability, rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and the underlying systems. Streamline manual redundancies and automate repetitive workflows to maximize enterprise applications’ ROI and resilience.

  • Application Migration on GCP and Cost Management

    Avail Cloud4C’s industry-leading Migration Factory approach to streamline your enterprise and SaaS application workloads and resources, PaaS platforms migration on GCP. With this assembly-line methodology implemented by cutting-edge automation processes and administrative experts, gain high ROI value, fast deploy/provision cloud infrastructure, simplify on-demand provisioning of cloud stacks, and integrate seamlessly with existing ITSM processes. Leverage GCP-native solutions to migrate .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python-based applications, Linux and Windows-based app clusters and containers to Google cloud in just simple, automated steps. Exercise a lean application lifecycle environment across the entire organization including CI-CD integrations, DevOps and DevSecOps augmentation, and SysOps processes. Gain breakthrough application performance, hyper agility, operational scalability, and always-on availability.

  • Industry Applications Management on GCP

    With the power of GCP-native architecture, Cloud4C helps integrate, streamline, and unlock hyper performance for key industrial and SaaS applications, PaaS platforms in banking, healthcare, e-commerce, enterprise operations, information management, and more. Avail end-to-end modernization, implementation support for SAP ERP, Oracle, SAP Full Stack, Infosys Finacle, Intellect, Magento, opentext, industry applications on Google Cloud Platform. Seamlessly build, deploy, test, run, and scale web applications, integrate with virtualized networks, embed containerization-serverless-microservice capabilities, and deploy enterprise-grade security and compliance. Achieve high availability of 99.95% and seamlessly scale applications globally with zero disruption.

  • Database Management on Google Cloud

    Host, manage, administer, and secure databases for mission-critical enterprise ERP, CRM, CMS, and related applications including on-prem, Edge, and IoT environments with ease on the Google Cloud. Cloud4C addresses SQL OpenSource Database applications such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL; SQL commercial database applications such as IBM DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP ASE, SAP HANA; NoSQL Open source database applications such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, redis, etc. Fully managed cloud-based databases ensure high data availability, scalability, and easy access to cutting-edge analytical solutions. Embed top-notch security solutions and cloud-based firewalls for world-class data protection.

  • Application Integration on GCP

    Integrity of applications and their backend architectures, databases is an essential condition to achieve seamless frontend operations across diverse IT landscapes. With applications transited and modernized on the Google cloud, bolster application integrity with multi-purpose APIs and event-driven architectures. The latter allows easy synchronization of divergent applications with other databases, apps, systems, platforms, and backend infra as and when required. Also, enhance remote workflow management with configurable, customizable, and fully administered remote development environments, remote workforce applications, and more.

  • DevOps powered by GCP

    A modernized DevOps environment is critical to accelerate your product delivery lifecycle. With DevOps environments augmented by Google Cloud tools and services, embrace an automated, agile, and highly scalable ecosystem across the entire Software Development Lifecycle. Embed key technologies such as containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for Google Cloud (GKE), orchestration, Infrastructure as a Code to align your DevOps environment across multiple application landscapes. Leverage Cloud4C’s key toolkit expertise in platform architectures, configuration, CI/CD pipeline, coding, systems building, automation, and testing to boost your DevOps and application practices on the cloud. With the GCP advantage, develop applications on the language of choice - .NET, PHP, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python, bring in containers and frameworks-libraries of choice, enhance developer productivity, and streamline CI/CD pipelines with GCP Code Build.

  • Microservices on GCP

    The world is rapidly transcending from monolithic architectures that have powered legacy applications and software for decades. The major issue with such traditional structures is in their unparalleled rigidity, making life difficult for engineers to spot sneaky code errors or make major updates. With the cloud revolution powering modernized development environments, break up legacy applications and design new software in a powerful modularized fashion: abstracted components dedicated to running critical functions, weaved together into a central whole via advanced tools. Such modularized, self-functioning software segments makes it easy to pinpoint errors, push upgrades, and automate the delivery process for faster provisioning and running into live environments. This also assists in load balancing and traffic management. Individual server functions running each of the microservice segments can be independently scaled up or down based on traffic requirements without affecting the entire software’s performance, thereby reducing unnecessary server overprovisioning and reducing costs.

  • Serverless Architecture on GCP

    If microservices is considered to transform the way applications and software are developed or designed, Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service ensures the same are run on the cloud in an equally agile and transformative manner. Under this process, once the developed code is pushed to the cloud, the microservice modules or functions are assigned independent servers/fire only when the particular function is called, thereby reducing idle running or overprovisioning. Hence, under this architecture, the enterprise simply needs to push the modules to the cloud environment and the latter takes care of the rest, even to the point of assigning servers to run the same. Embrace the Functions-as-a-Service approach for the app modernization process including frontend apps, middleware, OS, libraries, frameworks, APIs, virtual machines, and more. Integrate microservices architecture with containerization to leverage FaaS on GCP to the fullest. With serverless event processing, design and develop the architecture of an event-driven application that ingests data streams, processes the same on the cloud, and synchronizes the results back to back-end databases at zero disruption, null data loss, and ultra-low latency. Leverage GCP native tools to enable serverless operations: Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, etc

  • Application Security and Event Management on GCP

    With numerous cloud-native tools, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated Security Operations Center managed services, and cybersecurity experts, gain end-to-end protection of all your application assets. Leverage the advanced Managed Detection and Response platform for automated threat, malware management. Lower Mean Time to Detect and Response across all touchpoints, avail complete end-point security and utilize advanced data analytics to gain unique security management insights. Avail 24/7 Monitoring, Identity, and Access Management, Firewalls management, API security, app database threat management, network monitoring with dedicated cloud-native tools. Embrace game-changing preventive maintenance capabilities with Cloud4C’s proprietary SHOP (Self-Healing Operations Platform).

  • Compliant-ready Application Architecture on GCP

    With Cloud4C’s application managed services for Google Cloud, avail a globally compliant-ready application architecture that includes stringent adherence to local-national-global regulations such as PCI-DSS, NESA, SAMA, GDPR, FedRamp, MSA, IRAP, GxP, CSA, OJK, MEITI, RBI. Worldwide standards include dedicated certifications for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 20000, ISO 22301, SOC1, SOC2. Adhere to data residency and locality laws easily with secure, in-country hosting. Embrace stringent compliance checks over your application assets. Let compliance issues never deter your application functionalities and the organization’s progress again.

  • DR and Business Continuity Planning on GCP

    Streamlined integrated Disaster Recovery tools and solutions to help businesses achieve near-zero operational outage. Avail advanced automated backup, recovery, and disaster management solutions for your applications and related assets with stringent, custom RPO/RTO standards. Build your custom DR strategy on the Google cloud leveraging DRaaS architecture, adopt tailored solutions for business processes, streamline-protect data storage platforms, and opt for periodic DR drills for maximum impact. Avail geo-native GCP hosting for maximum application availability, scalability, performance agility, and uncompromised continuity.

  • Automation and Intelligence on GCP

    With Cloud4C’s turnkey hyperautomation solution, you can discover the right business processes for automation, extract data from even unstructured sources, automate complex tasks, strategically scale automation across your enterprise and do much more. With our proven process analytics and automation expertise, our certified automation experts have helped many organizations automate some of their core tasks, and transform their businesses.Leverage proprietary cutting-edge AI, Big Data, Analytics, RPA, and automation tools and solutions to modernize application processes, workflows, data and embrace intelligent, informed decision-making capabilities. With applications powered on the Google cloud backend, choose from hundreds of advanced cloud-native tools and business applications to streamline asset management, workflows, compliance, governance, and more. Unlock cutting-edge innovation capabilities with cloud Machine learning tools with Vertex AI, AutoML, Vision AI, Dialogflow, BigQuery, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Composer, AI Infrastructure, Cloud Natural Language, AutoML Tables, etc. GCP’s fully modernized development platform provides automated logging, scaling and high availability, rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and the underlying systems. Streamline manual redundancies and automate repetitive workflows to maximize enterprise applications’ ROI and resilience.

Fail-proof, Zero Loss Implementation: Into the Cloud4C Application Migration and Modernization Factory Approach

PHASE 1: ASSESSMENT
  • Discovery Workshops
  • Industry and geo-specific frameworks
  • Assessing at-risk applications and loopholes
  • Risk and security assessment with priority points
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis with Risk Mitigation Costs
  • Cloud4C Endorsement Priorities
  • Recommendation priorities for application modernization
  • Stakeholder buy-in and funds
PHASE 2: PLAN
  • Laying out the modernization blueprint
  • App migration and transformation approaches
  • Migration strategy and target landscapes for deployment
  • Development and Testing Plans
  • Document Impact Plan and Document Project Milestones
  • Budgeting
  • Stakeholder buy-ins and funds release
PHASE 3: EXECUTION
  • Project Kick-off
  • Configure Cloud Platforms
  • Quality Checks
  • Security Checks and Authorization
  • App Health and Functionality Check
  • Report Status to Migration Teams
  • ROI Validation
  • De-commission Technologies
  • Project Sign-Off

Why Adopt the Cloud4C Application Migration and Modernization Factory Approach?

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In-depth discovery workshops and end-to-end consultations across the entire application migration project lifecycle

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Fail-proof, secure, and risk-averse application migration framework tailored to organizational needs and objectives

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Robust industry, geography, and compliance-specific Cloud4C Application Migration factory approach for faster migration at zero disruption

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Comprehensive transition strategy involving the entire applications partner ecosystem to seamlessly achieve organization’s transformation objectives

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Leveraging cloud-native & underlying certified migration tools powered by automation and intelligence to enable quicker transition, faster Go-to-Market (GTM), and enhanced ROI

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Leveraging GCP modernized app development environments to develop highly available, custom applications for any ecosystem

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Leveraging built-in application monitoring tools to monitor application health and performance, availability and usage of all enterprise web applications

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Embrace the built-in security control for application networks, monitoring & logging, identity management, data protection, and configuration management. Secure advanced protection for web apps via cybersecurity best practices

Google Cloud Native Common Tools and Services: Frequently Deployed and Integrated

API Management

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AI and Machine Learning

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Data Analytics

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Containers

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Databases

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Developer Tools

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Hybrid and Multi-cloud Applications

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Application Security

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Serverless Computing

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Why Partner with Cloud4C for your Application Modernization Journey on Google Cloud?

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One of the most trusted Managed Google cloud services and Application Modernization providers in APAC, MEA, and the Americas for 12+ years

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World’s largest Application-focused, high-end managed services provider with AIOps-driven GCP Managed Operations

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24/7 Support backed by 2000+ cloud certified experts (including Kubernetes, DevOps experts) adept with robust ITIL, ITSM, CoBIT delivery processes, 26 dedicated Centers of Excellence

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Zero Friction GCP Application Modernization Model with industry-leading Application Migration Factory approach, 25000+ Apps, and Databases migrated

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4000+ enterprise customers including 60 of Fortune 500 companies including 5 of Top 20 Global Banks

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Presence in 26 nations worldwide including successful deployment of Public, Private, Hybrid, Multi, and Community Google Cloud platforms

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High application availability 99.95%, hyper-scalability, industry-best uptime with fail-proof 50,000+ transactions per hour

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Proven SAP on Google Cloud expertise managing 10,000+ SAP instances and 2300+ TB of HANA Database

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Proven expertise with IBM, Oracle, OpenText, Infosys, and cloud-native enterprise applications management including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS transformation on Google Cloud

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Host and deploy applications at the GCP region of choice ensuring high availability and zero disruptions

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Proven end-to-end Application Modernization expertise with dedicated development, engineering, maintenance, administration, security monitoring acumen

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Dedicated DR on GCP offerings for heterogeneous, complex application environments with automated recovery-backup, failback-failover mechanisms

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Dedicated Application Managed Security Services on GCP Expertise, 40+ Security Controls, dedicated SOCs

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Cloud4C proprietary automation solutions including Self-healing Operations, Automation Delivery platforms, and RPA solutions

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Expertise with hundreds of Google cloud-native tools and applications, best managed according to tailored business processes

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Cost-effective Pay-per-use model under single SLA

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1 Billion+ Fail-safe Application Managed Hosting Hours administering 40000+ VMs

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Strict compliance to regulatory and in-country data residency standards

Google Application Modernization - FAQs

  • What is meant by App modernization on the Cloud?

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    Application modernization on cloud entitles customizing, rearchitecting, or fine-tuning applications to seamlessly integrate and run with the adopted cloud platform.

    Legacy applications are often hardwired to specific systems, kernels, or backends and hence perform poorly on cloud if simply lifted and shifted.

    To leverage the best of the advanced cloud architecture and ensure high workload performance, modernizing applications should be on the top of the bucket list for enterprise owners.

  • How do you achieve application modernization?

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    Application modernization could be done in six fundamental approaches or the 6 Rs: Repurchase, Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Retire, Retain. The first approach involves simple transition of the usage of an on-prem software to its cloud version, essentially changing licenses.

    Rehost involves lifting and shifting applications as is to the cloud environment while Replatform includes the same methodology but with a few customizations for better performance on the cloud.

    Refactor or Rearchitect involves a complete overhaul of the applications, including breaking down monolithic structures into simpler modules or microservices and redesigning codebases to not only migrate them to cloud but making them cloud-ready end-to-end.

    Retire and Retain involves practices to replace worn-out, redundant software or retaining existing, highly critical on-prem applications as-is, respectively.

  • What are the main components of application modernization?

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    Application modernization impacts the entire app’s lifecycle, inputs, and outputs.

    Hence, to fully modernize applications, enterprises must also refactor app databases, fine tune database management platforms, modify application networks-protocols-libraries, customize servers, integrate with DevOps, and streamline app security.

    Firms can leverage services of application modernization partners like Cloud4C or native cloud-tools to achieve the above without disruption.

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