Cloud Consultancy and Advisory Services

This is a difficult question to answer because every situation is uniquely different. However, because of our ready-made way of working, our guide for a straightforward lift-and-shift migration of two or three similar Linux servers would be 1-2 months. Please bear in mind though, much depends on this, like whether it needs to be an uptime migration and if there is any data involved (and how much). However, choosing Mesoform as your partner for this work, we will also include automation solutions and primary Cloud feature improvements in this migration.

This is where we move apps from one provider to another but without any real changes to the app, apart from maybe some configuration changes. We sort of pick up and drop the applications from one server on-premise (or another Cloud) provider onto a ready built one on the different provider. In reality, the way Mesoform works, you will probably be more than just that, and it will likely include improvements to automation, software firewalls, upgrade processes, service availability and security.

Our most common engagement model involves project-based delivery around a statement of work (SOW) assessment. However, we're passionate about what we do and want businesses of all sizes and positions to be able to leverage our experience in delivering exceptional service at the highest level of industry. So our request-based service makes our team available "on-request" to support your technology team and reduce the burden of context switching causing under-performing developers. We will spend a small amount of time understanding your current DevOps, platform and site reliability engineering status. Once we have this initial engagement set-up, your technology team can simple request our team perform task which would normally take time away from your critical developers who would otherwise be spending time adding critical features on your apps.

Mesoform have been advising and engineering best security practices for some of the largest companies around, at highly regulated enterprises and on a massive scale for many years. It is at the heart of everything we do. It is important to ensure your services are released as quickly as possible but it is critical to ensure that they are deployed as securely as possible.

Unfortunately, no one can realistically promise that - and be wary of anyone who does!The IT industry instead talks about the number of 9s your service should expect as its service level objective (SLO). The more 9s the better (e.g. 99.99% uptime). Mesoform will always use the best technologies we believe will give the most availability for your apps. This is still something which is considered on a case-by-case basis because the more 9s you aim for, the more difficult and costly it will become, and sometimes, it may simply be unnecessary. We'll look to implement the best solution for your business based on cost, performance, security and overall user experience.

Operations is sometimes seen as a big business cost. Essential, but time consuming and as a result, neglected or misunderstood. OaaS is seen as a way to improve overall business operations by leveraging expertise and experience of specialists, as a service, from a third party; and doing it at times, and in ways which work best for you. From Mesoform's perspective, this is technical operations, like site reliability and security.

Many surveys over the years from companies like Google, IDC, IT Revolution Press and Gartner have found that companies are able to operate more effectively when particular attention is paid, by experts, to how services are deployed, secured, monitored and analysed. This is because each one of these concepts is massive in their own right and require people to focus a lot of time and effort into ensuring they are implemented correctly. When burdening individuals with all this important work, the level of quality and ability to deliver on time, drops drastically. The companies who are doing this best are the ones you expect, Google, AWS, Apple, Microsoft, etc. and they know the way to do this is by shifting down by having dedicated platform engineering, security and SRE teams. However, Mesoform reliase that this can be difficult for many businesses to address, so we make these teams available to you without the major investment in doing it yourself. You just leverage our specialist team and we absorb the big initial and on-going costs.

Shifting down is a term which has recently come out of Google, and is the concept of gaining the most productivity from your development team by engaging with specialist platform engineering, site reliability and security teams to abstract complexities of their specialist areas into easy-to-consume tools and processes which you technology team can adopt into their development lifecycle. An example of this would be providing a simple way to test app deployments against security and compliance policies before changes are even committed to be released.