Clients cases – Client case: Aspira Limited
"The migration marked a significant milestone, empowering our teams to leverage cloud technology's scalability, flexibility, and security to propel the business forward. This migration journey underscored the importance of comprehensive planning, ongoing training, and community engagement. Monitoring and optimization post-migration proved crucial, as did keeping a close eye on expenses. Now, we're starting the new chapter by teaming up with Cloudfresh to maximize our Google Cloud experience."
About the client: Aspira Limited (Aspira Ltd.) is a young yet experienced group of like-minded individuals who create awesome new sports-related IT products for users and large companies. The company gathers, processes, and analyzes data from the sports world to further apply it in the field of information technology.
To develop new IT products related to sports for major companies and end users worldwide, Aspira Ltd. initially utilized a local environment, using a budget-friendly data center. However, over the next few years, the company expanded its infrastructure, doubling it annually. As the demands grew, the current data center still needed to meet the IT needs, necessitating significant planning, additional investment in hardware, and possible downtime during upgrades.
The company’s on-premises setup presented numerous challenges, from operational inefficiencies to scalability issues. They encountered delays in provisioning servers, struggled with hardware maintenance, and faced limitations in disaster recovery and physical space. Additionally, managing network connectivity, bandwidth, and technical staffing and expertise posed ongoing hurdles. That was the moment Aspira Ltd. started to consider transitioning to the cloud infrastructure.
As Aspira Ltd. embarked on its search for a cloud service provider, the team outlined specific requirements to meet our evolving needs:
After careful consideration among various cloud providers, Aspira Ltd. chose Google Cloud because of its close alignment with all the company’s needs and robust features, including production-ready managed Kubernetes. Consequently, they launched the migration process.
The migration from our on-premises data center to the cloud was a pivotal moment in Aspira Ltd.’s journey towards modernization.
The first step in the migration process was establishing a secure network connection between the data center’s internal network and the Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). This ensured seamless communication between the existing infrastructure and the cloud environment.
With the groundwork laid, Aspira Ltd. embarked on the gradual migration of each service, one by one. This meticulous approach allowed for thorough staging testing and ensured the smooth transition of each component from on-premises to the cloud.
Throughout the migration, the team prioritized migrating critical services and workloads while leaving less critical ones in the data center. This strategic decision provided the company with a safety net, allowing the employees to maintain continuity in current operations and easily revert to the on-premises setup if needed.
After 5 months of meticulous planning and execution, the migration process was successfully completed. With all services migrated to the cloud, the Aspira Ltd. team took the bold step of backing up their on-premises data and shutting down the local data centers.
The migration to the cloud yielded significant results, providing Aspira Ltd. with a platform for enhanced efficiency, security, and innovation. These outcomes included:
The migration marked a significant milestone, empowering our teams to leverage cloud technology's scalability, flexibility, and security to propel the business forward. This migration journey underscored the importance of comprehensive planning, ongoing training, and community engagement. Monitoring and optimization post-migration proved crucial, as did keeping a close eye on expenses. Now, we're starting the new chapter by teaming up with Cloudfresh to maximize our Google Cloud experience. Oleksii Kravchenko, Infrastructure Engineer, Aspira Limited
As Aspira Ltd. continues their journey in the cloud, the partnership with Cloudfresh marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter. Together, the companies are poised to explore new horizons and unlock even greater potential for innovation and growth.
The companies’ collaboration is accelerating, and with the help of Cloudfresh tech experts, Aspira Ltd. is confident in navigating the ever-evolving landscape of Google Cloud technologies and driving our business forward with agility and innovation.
"Google is truly a reliable leader in the field of cloud computing. We can meet the needs of our projects using GCP services, all while getting all the necessary tools for tracking. Migrating a portion of our infrastructure from bare metal to the cloud is fast and trouble-free. The professionalism and technical expertise of the Cloudfresh team support us during the implementation of new solutions, and that is genuinely valuable."
"Google Cloud Platform for us is a service that allows us to quickly scale a separate progressive service for our partners dozens of times faster and flexibly manage the capacities needed at a certain moment. Cloudfresh technical support quickly helped to solve problems with API limits. The team always tries to solve and deal with problems quickly. In addition, Cloudfresh helped optimize financial costs, which contributed to developing a different project direction."
"Google Cloud services are a whole world of tools that allow you to increase the efficiency of working with data and provide convenience at all stages of work. Our team uses many Google features to store our infrastructure, data processing, and A/B testing. It completely closes our need to obtain and analyze data, test hypotheses, and, accordingly, scale our business."
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