Cloud migration
Step 1
Conduct assessment of legacy application and migration planning
Step 2
Design secure architecture
Step 3
Develop the strategy, backlog, and roadmap
Step 4
Operate the cloud environment
The Challenge: Migrating legacy applications to the cloud brings numerous challenges for any organization. Planning the migration strategy, architecting the environment, managing costs, determining the type of refactoring required, implementing security measures, and other tasks require careful planning.
What’s at Stake: Lack of adoption with government services, low customer satisfaction, and negative impact to the mission.
Solution: We begin with qualitative and quantitative user research to understand user behaviors, desired touchpoints, tasks, and journeys. With these foundational tasks, we design a secure cloud architecture and DevSecOps infrastructure and conduct the migration and refactor to the environment, transitioning to cloud native services as required. The final step includes operations of common services and continuous improvement of both the environment and the application. At every phase, extensive user testing and continuous feedback enables our team to improve website content, features, and functionality.
Capabilities: Secure Cloud Architecture: Assessing and architecting secure cloud environment DevSecOps: Building DevSecOps infrastructure (e.g., CI/CD) Platform Engineering: refactoring to a cloud environment and services (e.g., serverless) Cybersecurity: Achieving Authority to Operate (ATO) and continuous ATO Operations: Managing cloud common services
Methodologies: Secure Cloud Architecture, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity
Case Highlight: U.S. Air Force, Cloud One. The Ibis team architected and built a multi-cloud, PaaS-based hosting environment using both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure GovCloud, known as Cloud One. Our team developed the environments, including fully automated and scripted environment creation, infrastructure stand-up and hardening, networking, application deployment, and continuous monitoring. We migrated over 50 applications to the environment and used the Risk Management Framework to achieve an ATO for each application and environment. We operated common services in both AWS and Azure. The program lowered costs for application hosting and improved both security and the user experience.