Cloud Migration Consulting Services | Lift and Shift Consulting Services
Lift and shift consulting services
Our lift and shift consulting service is the fastest, most direct path to migrating your applications and data to the cloud. With decades of hands-on experience, our consultants manage the entire rehosting process for a smooth transition with minimal risk and disruption. We help you quickly exit your data center to reduce costs and improve scalability, setting the stage for future innovation.
Pythian has the top lift and shift migration consultants
Choosing the right consultant is critical for a successful lift and shift migration. Our decades of experience, deep partnerships with major cloud providers, and a long history of delivering results for global customers give you the confidence to migrate with a team you can trust.
Decrease in operational spending
By partnering with Pythian customers reduce cloud spend.
Data systems managed
Pythian supports over 45 technologies—from data platforms, warehouses, data lakes, databases to cloud.
Global customers
As a global service provider, we serve customers across the world—many who have been with us for decades, and trust us with their most critical lift and shift migration projects.
Accelerate your move to the cloud with less risk
Pythian's lift and shift service provides a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for planning and executing a fast and efficient migration from on-premise infrastructure to a modern cloud environment. We focus on minimizing business disruption while helping you achieve your cost and scalability goals.
Migration assessment and planning
Our consultants conduct a thorough assessment of your existing applications and infrastructure. We analyze dependencies and business requirements to create a detailed migration plan, identifying the ideal workloads for a lift and shift approach and ensuring the project stays on schedule and within budget.
Cloud landing zone deployment
We design and configure a secure and scalable landing zone in your chosen cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). This foundational step ensures your new cloud environment is built on best practices for networking, security, and governance before any workloads are migrated.
Lift and shift execution
Our team handles the complexities of the migration, rehosting your servers, virtual machines, and data to the new cloud environment with minimal or no code changes. We use real-time data synchronization to keep your business running throughout the process, preventing disruption.
Post-migration validation and support
After the migration, our consultants perform rigorous testing to ensure all applications function correctly and meet performance benchmarks. We provide ongoing support to ensure the stability and performance of your new environment, allowing your team to focus on their core objectives.
OCI migration gives American supply chain provider ultimate control
This leading supply chain and logistics provider needed more control and flexibility over their critical database patching and upgrades than their previous managed services provider offered. Our consultants planned and executed a complex data migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a strategic move that provided them with ultimate control and was supported by ongoing managed database services to ensure a smooth transition.
Go beyond migration to achieve tangible business results
Our lift and shift consulting services deliver real business outcomes that go beyond simply moving your applications. We focus on your larger transformation strategy to achieve significant improvements in cost efficiency, performance, and business agility.
Accelerate your cloud journey
A lift and shift migration is the fastest way to move your workloads out of a data center and into the cloud. We migrate your applications with little to no downtime, protecting your revenue and customer experience while quickly delivering the benefits of the cloud.
Reduce data center costs
We help you replace expensive on-premise hardware and maintenance with a flexible, pay-as-you-go cloud model. Our consultants right-size your new environment to prevent over-provisioning, helping you get a faster return on your investment and lower your total cost of ownership (TCO).
Scale databases on demand
Build your future on a platform that offers seamless scalability. A lift and shift migration ensures your applications can automatically adjust resources to handle sudden spikes in traffic, so you never have to worry about capacity limits again.
Create a foundation for modernization
While a lift and shift migration moves your applications as-is, it is a critical first step towards a modern data estate. Once in the cloud, you are positioned to leverage advanced analytics, build predictive models, and refactor your applications to take full advantage of cloud-native services.
No matter where your data resides, Pythian can help you migrate your databases
We partner with Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure to migrate your databases (including Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL), virtual machines, and other workloads.
Google Cloud
We help you migrate workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) quickly and with less risk. As a Google Cloud Premier Partner, we have proven expertise in Google’s database, AI, and analytics tools. We handle all migration types, from simple "lift and shift" of virtual machines to complex projects like moving from Oracle to Google Cloud, so your business can get the most from the cloud.
AWS
We help you improve performance and cut costs by migrating your databases, applications, and virtual machines to Amazon Web Services (AWS). As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, our certified experts use proven methods to move your workloads with minimal risk and disruption.
Microsoft Azure
We help you migrate your workloads to Microsoft Azure with minimal risk and disruption. Our consultants have deep experience with Azure databases, applications, and virtual machines. We manage your entire migration—from initial planning and data transfer to post-migration optimization—to ensure your new environment is secure, controls costs, and helps you meet your business goals.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
We migrate your Oracle Database workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with minimal downtime. With decades of experience managing complex Oracle systems, our consultants handle every project, from on-premises database moves to Exadata Cloud Service upgrades. We go beyond simply moving your data; we tune your new environment to improve performance and lower your costs.
A systematic approach to a fast and efficient cloud migration
Our lift and shift consulting service follows a systematic and collaborative process designed to ensure a smooth transition with minimal risk, allowing you to quickly realize the benefits of the cloud.
Database migration assessment
Our consultants will start by evaluating your infrastructure, workloads, and dependency applications to determine the most suitable workloads for a lift and shift migration strategy.
Database migration plan / roadmap
With a clear understanding of your environment and business goals, our consultants develop a detailed migration plan and roadmap that outlines every step of the project, including timelines and a risk mitigation strategy.
Migration execution
Our consultants use proven methodologies and tools to rehost your applications and data in the new cloud environment. We use real-time data synchronization to ensure your business remains fully operational throughout the process.
Validation and handover
We test your migration to ensure all data and applications are moved accurately and perform as expected. After a successful migration, we provide ongoing support and documentation to ensure the stability and performance of your new environment.
On-going support
After a successful database migration, Pythian provides on-going support to ensure the stability and performance of your new environment. Our experts offer continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization services, allowing your team to focus on business objectives while we manage the database.
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See how our customers succeed with cloud migration
Learn how our cloud migration consultants help businesses move their critical infrastructure to the cloud to reduce costs, improve performance, and accelerate innovation.
OCI migration gives supply chain provider ultimate control
Needing more flexibility than their previous provider offered, this logistics leader engaged Pythian to migrate their complex data environment. Our experts executed a seamless lift and shift migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving them ultimate control over patching and upgrades while ensuring a smooth transition.
Outdoor retailer's Oracle to Google Cloud shift drives data innovation
Facing challenges with high costs and performance bottlenecks from its on-premises databases, this retailer needed a modern solution. Our consultants planned and executed a seamless transition from their data center to Google Cloud, resulting in significant cost savings and improved performance.
Cloud migration strategies: Lift-and-shift vs. modernization
Migrating a workload to the cloud isn’t the same thing as modernizing that workload. After all, a lift-and-shift to a public cloud is essentially a change of address—you’re simply moving the workload from one place to another. Modernization, on the other hand, takes advantage of the flexibility and range of new possibilities offered by cloud environments.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about lift and shift consulting services
Lift and shift consulting services, also known as rehosting, involve migrating your applications and data from an on-premise data center to the cloud with minimal or no changes to the underlying code. It is the fastest and most direct way to begin leveraging the benefits of the cloud, such as reduced costs and improved scalability.
A lift and shift migration is an excellent choice when you need to exit a data center quickly, want to reduce infrastructure costs, or are looking to build a foundation for future modernization. It allows you to move your workloads to the cloud with minimal disruption, providing immediate benefits while setting you up for more advanced, cloud-native projects in the future.
A lift and shift (rehosting) migration moves your application as-is. Other strategies, like re-platforming or refactoring, involve modifying the application to take better advantage of cloud-native features, but they are more time-consuming and complex. An experienced migration consultant can help you determine the best migration approach for each of your workloads.
Our consultants manage the data transfer in the background and use advanced data synchronization and real-time replication to ensure your business remains fully operational throughout the migration. This allows for a seamless transition to your new cloud environment with minimal to no downtime, protecting your revenue and customer experience.