Welcome to the cloud, where your data can live in a secure environment that you don’t have to maintain on premises, and is accessible from anywhere in seconds, from almost any device – so long as you have the right permissions. What an incredible convenience, right?

The process of transferring your current on-prem systems to a cloud environment can feel a bit overwhelming, regardless of your industry, but especially within public sector. There are so many compliance issues, security parameters, and regulatory agencies to consider, which makes any move a cautious one.

This is where Ingram Micro Cloud and AWS step in. See, Ingram Micro Cloud specializes in data migrations to the cloud, and we’re privy to the overbearing policies and procedures that public sector organizations have to comply with. We have a dedicated Public Sector team with many years of experience and complete domain expertise. It’s not as complicated as it seems! And we’re here to help!

In these nimble times where so many businesses and organizations are moving over to the cloud we’re seeing a spike across the board for government, education, healthcare, and non-profit. For instance, hospitals and healthcare organizations are migrating patient data to be easily accessible on tablets as they go from patient to patient in a busy OR floor and education institutions supporting remote learning through curriculum, adaptable online assessments, and real-time reporting. In fact, AWS and other big technology organizations are predicting that nearly 30% of data will soon require real-time processing, which can only be managed through cloud storage and migration.

Welcome to the cloud, where your data can live in a secure environment that you don’t have to maintain on premises, and is accessible from anywhere in seconds, from almost any device – so long as you have the right permissions. What an incredible convenience, right?

The process of transferring your current on-prem systems to a cloud environment can feel a bit overwhelming, regardless of your industry, but especially within public sector. There are so many compliance issues, security parameters, and regulatory agencies to consider, which makes any move a cautious one.

This is where Ingram Micro Cloud and AWS step in. See, Ingram Micro Cloud specializes in data migrations to the cloud, and we’re privy to the overbearing policies and procedures that public sector organizations have to comply with. We have a dedicated Public Sector team with many years of experience and complete domain expertise. It’s not as complicated as it seems! And we’re here to help!

In these nimble times where so many businesses and organizations are moving over to the cloud we’re seeing a spike across the board for government, education, healthcare, and non-profit. For instance, hospitals and healthcare organizations are migrating patient data to be easily accessible on tablets as they go from patient to patient in a busy OR floor and education institutions supporting remote learning through curriculum, adaptable online assessments, and real-time reporting. In fact, AWS and other big technology organizations are predicting that nearly 30% of data will soon require real-time processing, which can only be managed through cloud storage and migration.

With cloud services making the cost of data storage more affordable than ever, customers don’t have to be picky about what data to keep and what to purge. Working with Ingram Micro and AWS for provisioning solid migration and storage plans, partners can create scalable solutions for their end customers that provide increased operational efficiencies and profitability.

How to Have a Successful Migration

1. Develop a strong migration strategy with your end customer

Migrating any part of an organization’s business to the cloud requires a strong strategy. Using tools like the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) can help structure the lifecycle of the migration, as well as assess the cost to find areas for reduction, accelerate the migration process strategically, and provide a strong framework for you to find repeatable success. The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) even helps evaluate the cloud readiness of your end customer.

2. Leverage an invaluable partner relationship

Working with Ingram Micro Cloud enables you to have access to incredible resources, SMEs, training programs, and more to enable you to feel confident as you provide migration services for your end customers. Leveraging a partner relationship gives you the extra boost of confidence you need, knowing that you’re not alone. With professional services for you to use, too, as well as financial options to support you, Ingram Micro Cloud makes partner enablement a primary focus to ensure partners alike are completely successful from every angle.

3. Cost optimization and visibility

It’s easy to get lost in the habit of provisioning more than you need. The important thing to remember about the AWS Cloud is that it is completely adjustable on the fly – there’s no need to commit to more or less than what you need. Focus on delivering a right-size solution with the flexibility of being able to adjust the volume of your solution whenever you need to. AWS even offers a Pricing Calculator to show a breakdown estimate of the costs with total transparency – no surprises. 

4. Prioritize applications

Oftentimes, data migration can come in a flurry of trying to do too many things at once. It’s important to take a step back and prioritize the right applications in the order in which they’re needed. The applications should be grouped in importance to the function of the organization. Consider things like whether the applications have dependencies, how much of those applications are being accessed on a daily basis versus more archived, and if they’re entirely internal or have external users, too. They say that the best practice is to focus on migrating applications that are not essential to the operation of the organization first, to ensure a smooth transition.

5. Use staging environments – more than one

Speaking of smooth transitions – using staging environments is a really effective way to ensure that things are going well both operationally and emotionally. Balancing the concern for technical success and actual cultural acceptance is a fine line to walk. Using staging environments allows you to keep multiple, controlled version to provision instances, and they help you keep consistency and reliability.

6. Test, and then test again

Don’t forget to take a few test runs. It’s important to get it right, and there’s no limit to how many tests you can do before you’re ready for the launch. The most important thing is to ensure that your end customer is satisfied with the results.

7. Assist with implementing organizational cultural change

This part is imperative – what good is a cloud environment if no one is ready to adopt it? Developing an action plan will set your end customer up for success. Especially in the public sector environments, resistance to the “new” can be a big challenge. Issues like technical entrenchment are a real thing – and ensuring that IT teams are well-versed in what their new roles will be will allow the migration and transition to the cloud to be far more successful in the long term.

Ensuring Success in the Long Term

The best thing you can do to showcase your migration services is to stay updated on best practices and continuously examine right-sized solutions. The biggest oversight that organizations tend to make is over- or under-provisioning their actual needs. AWS is chalk full of right-size solutions, flexible payment options, and amazing security solutions that are compatible with even the strictest compliance, regulatory, and legal requirements – perfectly aligned for public sector organizations.

Teaming up with the Ingram Micro Cloud Public Sector team will ensure that you are completely trained and fully prepared to take on any proposals, and matched with the best opportunities for your business solutions. With programs like the Contracts Alliance Program, Ingram Micro Cloud can help you make all the bids! Plus, take advantage of the webinars and learning on demand offerings that cover a wide range of cloud solutions. Attend the Migration for Public Sector: Modern Cloud Infrastructure webinar, register today.