Next-Generation Digital Archive Transformation Experts
If you are contemplating your next-generation digital archive transformation and are overwhelmed by the challenges you face, Cloudfirst can help!
We have decades of experience in massive-scale, Legacy Archive analysis, planning, and migration services whether you are looking toward an on-premise, cloud or hybrid future.
How we can help
- Strategic guidance
- Legacy Archive analysis and modelling
- TCO analysis
- Reduced-rate 24x7 support
- Archive migration services
Our approach
Helping Navigate the Complex Path to Your Future Digital Archive
Cloudfirst.io is built from the ground up to help clients plan and execute on their next-generation digital archive transformations. We remain laser focused on defining, developing, and evolving end-to-end managed services and software solutions to mitigate client business, technical and workflow risks while accelerating legacy archive modernization.
Our experience matters
Our team of migration experts can help fast-track your archive migration planning and mitigate any transformational risks.
TCO Modelling & Strategy Development
Our data sciences team models your own real-world archive usage to eliminate all guesswork and empower your data-driven planning.
Migration Planning & Execution
Our Archive-Migration-as- a-Service (AMaaS) managed migration service handles your entire end-to-end archive transformation project.
Your Next-Generation Digital Archive
Whether on-premise, cloud, or hybrid, leverage our expertise to accelerate your digital transformation, reduce risk, and liberate your assets now and forever!
What we do
End-to-end services across the whole transformation.
Data empowerment
Our data sciences team perform deep analysis of existing archive infrastructures to help clients truly comprehend their legacy archive utilization — from inception to present day. Real-world utilization, growth forecasts, ingress/egress rates and hundreds of KPIs eliminate all guesswork.
Archive Migration as a Service
Our turnkey, preservation-grade, managed migration service manages the entire lift-and-shift of your valuable digital assets from your legacy on-prem system to your next-generation hybrid or cloud solution. We ensure zero operational impact and your data never leaves your control.
TCO analysis
Leveraging the deep insights from our analysis, we construct the most accurate, comprehensive real-world Total Cost of Ownership models — looking out over the next five years.
Liberate Your Archive Forever
Our primary objective is to help free your digital assets now and forever. Our migration process removes all proprietary naming, wrappers, and interfaces from your assets to ensure no continued vendor lock-in.
Unparalleled Expertise
Our team of migration experts possess more than a century of experience designing, developing, building, and deploying some of the world’s largest and most complex on-premises tape archive systems.
The Cloud [R]evolution
A clear, pragmatic methodology, whatever your future.
Cloudfirst has helped develop a clear and pragmatic methodology to help with your legacy archive cloud-transformation and all surrounding tools/workflows. Whether you are ready to go all-in on the cloud today or not we can help.
- Advanced audit and modelling to understand operations, assess risk and model forward-facing costs
- AMaaS handles your entire lift-and-shift and removes all vendor lock-in on your assets
- Save 30% or more on sustaining 24×7 legacy archive support
- Mitigate operational risks before, during and after migration
How we can help
From a data-driven baseline to a liberated archive.
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Deep-analysis and Audit
Our data sciences team capture, audit, and analyze your current digital archive infrastructure, usage patterns and trends to construct a real-world, data-driven baseline.
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Understanding Your Business
Our Business Analysts will work with your Corporate Strategy team to truly
understand your organizational objectives, pain-points, KPIs and business drivers.
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Next-Generation Archive Planning
By marrying decades of real-world experience with your data and business objectives allow us to construct a forward-thinking vision and plan for your organization.
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Legacy Archive Migration
We help execute on your strategy while our software orchestration tools manage the migration to your next-generation archive platform regardless of the topology or targets you select.
Industry challenges
The pressures facing every large-scale archive.
- Increasing annual costs
We can help you take control of ever-increasing support, maintenance and upgrade costs for your legacy archive infrastructure. By analyzing your real-world utilization we can build a long-term financial model that makes sense for you.
- Migration Challenges
Large-scale digital archives are often in a constant state of storage migration as they continue to grow and age. Keeping pace with this and ensuring longevity of your archive is paramount. We can help your organization manage migration and control costs.
- Limited Innovation
Many legacy archive solutions have not kept pace with the demands of the industry, locking their users into static workflows, aging architectures, and archaic licensing models. Let us help you take a fresh look at the art-of-the-possible.
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Uncertain
Future
Corporate consolidation, profit drivers, and the normal ebb-and-flow of the industry have caused many end-users concern with the long-term viability of their legacy archive solutions – and sustaining access to their digital crown jewels! We can help.
Experience matters
Talk to the people who built these systems.
Our team of experts possess more than a century of combined experience in architecting, developing, and deploying some of the most innovative and demanding digital archive systems in the world. You can trust us to help you on your complex archive transformation journey.