LucidPoint Infrastructure Practice:
We are experts in hybrid cloud infrastructure.  LucidPoint's history of datacenter hosting, storage software/hardware and large scale cloud project experience helps to ensure you realize a best in breed strategic transformation.  We are well aligned to provide your company successful migration to the public cloud that exceeds stakeholders expectations through exceptional customer service and trust.

Public cloud, when consumed with best practices, can help you and your company achieve a competitive advantage through cost savings, added security and global scale.  While each environment and customer challenge is unique, we have found that our proven process ensures success.

LucidPoint uses our 5 phases to provide a prescriptive process for adopting cloud services:

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1.  Strategic Phase

• Stakeholders, leaders and engineering teams alignment
• Near and long term outcome mapping
• Business case and cost modeling
• Staffing and services projecting

​Create self-service efficiencies and valuable business outcomes with effective cloud Governance. Google Organization Policies and IAM enable security-first least privilege configuration.

2.  Assessment Phase

• Align best of breed IT services to business goals
• Maximize value of existing assets through hybrid cloud
• Cost modeling and governance defined
• Confirm migration strategy

​Assessment and migration tools for environment discovery, such as Google StratoZone and open source ScoutSuite ensure holistic and detailed environment discovery. These tools also provide ongoing scanning and policy reporting value through automated inspection.

3.  Planning Phase

• Organizational checklist for transformation development 
• Security requirements defined and detailed
• Elasticity and On-Demand Mindset Analyzed
• Application and Data Lifecycle Confirmed
• Auto Scaling and Business Continuity Defined
• Future workloads Mapped

Planning cloud resource consumption across business units and with efficiency requires proven best practices and processes tailored to your business goals. During this phase we settle design decisions like VM architecture through Compute Engine, Containers using Kubernetes Engine or Cloud Run, and use of platform services.

4.  Implementation Phase

• Cost Governance aligned to budgets
• Simple security inheritance and least privilege boundaries 
• DevOps Practices - Move faster with continuous integration and templates
• Tools-based approach for repeatable predictable outcomes

Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code for repeatable and automated deployment through Google Deployment Manager or open source Terraform. By embracing continuous integration pipelines (CI), teams can move faster and safer together with automation.
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5 .  Operations & Support

• Centralized logging and alerts
• Scan and run with stability across a global footprint
• Automated maintenance identified and in place
• Best practices, self service and change management training 
• Continuous improvement philosophies defined and implemented
• Performance monitoring & optimization strategies
• Ongoing cost optimization

Enable SRE Best Practices, collect custom metrics, create probes, and monitor both GCP and AWS environments centrally with Google Cloud Monitoring

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