BLOCKPHISH

Cloud Migration Service

BLOCKPHISH’s Cloud Migration Service is a specialised offering suited to organisations wanting to deploy new and migrate existing workloads and services to Cloud and also organisations wanting expert guidance and support in optimising their use of Cloud services.

Features

  • Cloud assessment to ensure solution sizing is fit for purpose
  • Produce a business case for Cloud migration and support components
  • Cloud migration solution design and migration plan
  • Migration of development and production services/applications to Cloud infrastructure
  • Design and implementation of any required supporting technologies and services
  • Assistance with vendor management of Cloud service providers
  • Proof of concept to validate the Cloud migration approach
  • Cloud migration knowledge transfer for staff and support personnel
  • Post-migration support planning and delivery

Benefits

  • Trusted advisors provide guidance on all facets of cloud migration
  • Cloud migration readiness assessment allows for rationalisation of defunct services
  • Organisational staffing model supporting all services migrated to Cloud
  • Optimal Cloud services design matched to business and technical requirements
  • Project managed Cloud migration providing reduced risk
  • Change management allowing for the smooth adoption of Cloud technologies
  • Increased reliability/availability through Cloud technologies and tools
  • Planned production workload migrations minimising service outages
  • Transitional operational support if required
  • Prompt remediation of Cloud migration project issues

Pricing

£999.00 a person a day

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

2 7 6 1 8 5 3 1 8 9 0 8 2 6 1

Contact

BLOCKPHISH Samantha Jennings
Telephone: 07714705598
Email: Sam.Jennings@BlockPhish.com

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
Cloud migration planning can be run as a standalone engagement or initiation stage of a larger project. Both work to reduce risk/provide measurable benefits realisation. The basic steps below describe how BLOCKPHISH helps plan a cloud migration project to the point where the customer can migrate workloads themselves or engage a third party. The planning approach is tailored to the scale and complexity of the workloads to be migrated.
The basic planning steps are as follows:
1.BLOCKPHISH ensures that they fully understand the customer requirement and mandate (including budget/timeframe). This would include a project brief/business case/business requirements document/high level migration scope.
2. After workload/cloud assessment has been undertaken, BLOCKPHISH consultants will engage stakeholders through a series of interviews/meetings/workshops, produce a project initiation document which includes:
A: the workloads to be migrated as well as cloud infrastructure/support services required and supporting solution design
B: a project plan with initial constraints/assumptions/risks
C: the quality/acceptance/success criteria
3. Migration resource requirements are identified, and a migration schedule with work packages is drawn up which allows the customer, or a third party, to manage/deliver the Cloud migration.
4. The customer’s business case/budget is updated and (if approved) the cloud migration project delivery can begin.
Planning service works with specific services
No

Training

Training service provided
No

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
Yes
How the setup or migration service works
BLOCKPHISH helps customers migrate to (or between) Cloud based services using a project led approach tailored to the scale and complexity of the migration. The below steps outline the basic method BLOCKPHISH uses:
1. Cloud Assessment & Design: Provided with the relevant project/business/technical requirements, BLOCKPHISH consultants will host a series of engagements with stakeholders including design workshops/interviews as well as conduct technical assessments to determine the organisations current IT infrastructure/services/applications environment and determine the degree of readiness for a transition to Cloud or other Cloud services provider. The outcome would be a Cloud readiness assessment and a Cloud solution design with expected setup and operational costs. A Cloud migration plan would also be presented for review/approval.
2. Build & POC: BLOCKPHISH would build the customer approved Cloud infrastructure required including connectivity/security/monitoring. Included in this step would be a POC migration of non-production workloads to validate the approach and technology/tools used and to baseline expected performance.
3. Migration: BLOCKPHISH would manage/perform the migration of production workloads to the new Cloud service and/or oversee the customer or 3rd party.
4. Support & Close: Post transition support would ensure that migrated workloads/services are checked/tested according to agreed specification.
Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
No

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
Yes
How the quality assurance and performance testing works
BLOCKPHISH helps customers perform quality assurance and performance testing as part of their Cloud migration to mitigate risk and ensure expected outcomes. The below steps outline the basic method BLOCKPHISH uses:
1. In the beginning of the engagement/project BLOCKPHISH will establish whether the customer has existing methods of quality assurance and performance testing to consider as part of the project quality and acceptance controls. If the customer does not yet have a framework to specify and perform these controls, BLOCKPHISH will assist the customer in developing those required for the project. The agreed quality assurance and performance testing controls will apply to the design/implementation/migration and support elements to ensure that these deliverables meet requirements/expectations and produce the desired outcome.
2. Apart from quality reviews for Cloud infrastructure design and implementation, BLOCKPHISH will apply existing or newly developed quality assurance criteria and performance testing controls prior to and post the migration of workloads to the Cloud to ensure that where possible the performance is equal to or better than the desired quality/performance specification (unless specifically mentioned otherwise). This will ensure that Cloud migrations as well as other project deliverables meet the project/business/technical requirements and produce the desired outcome.

Security testing

Security services
Yes
Security services type
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services
  • Other
Other security services
  • Ethical Phishing
  • Security Awareness
  • Cyber security certifications
  • Blockchain solutions
  • Security Operations Centre
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Cloud Security
  • Cyber Maturity Assessment
Certified security testers
Yes
Security testing certifications
  • CHECK
  • CREST

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
Yes
Types of service supported
Buyer hosting or software
How the support service works
To assist customers with essential support services throughout a Cloud migration, BLOCKPHISH's MSP Managed Cloud Support offering provides 24x7x365 Level 2 and 3 Cloud support services. Depending on customer requirements and budget, the support levels/scope can be customised accordingly.

BLOCKPHISH uses a range of tools and processes that are adapted to specific customer requirements, including operational and incident management, monitoring, and reporting.

BLOCKPHISH's range of Cloud support services are more fully described in our MSP Managed Cloud Services offering also listed on the G-Cloud 12 Framework

Service scope

Service constraints
No constraints that buyers should be aware of.

User support

Email or online ticketing support
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
No
Support levels
The support levels/offering for BLOCKPHISH's Cloud Migration Service is closely aligned with their eMSP Managed Cloud Services.

Support services and associated support levels are an additional cost option available to customers should they require added technical support throughout the Cloud transition/migration period.

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Estrat Group Limited

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • CISSP
  • CISM
  • CISA

Social Value

Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

BLOCKPHISH is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Pricing

Price
£999.00 a person a day
Discount for educational organisations
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at Sam.Jennings@BlockPhish.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.