Rapid Migration and Modernization Program (RaMP)
Google Cloud's holistic, end-to-end migration and modernization program to help customers leverage expertise and best practices, lower risk, control costs, and simplify their path to cloud success.
Benefits
Migrating and modernizing should be fast and easy. With RaMP, it is.
Clarity and road map
Understand your IT environment with data-driven discovery and analytics, and receive a road map with timeline, costs, resources, and risks. Gain confidence with a transparent transition plan and cost proposal.
Expertise in execution
Migrate with confidence through best practices delivered by Google Cloud and our partners, including blueprints, governance, security, and training for your personnel and cloud operations.
Reduce cost and risk
Reduce migration costs with flexible proposals that meet your budget, partner funding from Google Cloud to offset costs, and solution-specific discounts and credits. Lower risk with data-driven migration plans.
Why Migrate and modernize with Google Cloud RaMP?
For any large-scale migration, we’ve found the following
five best practices greatly increase chances of
success. First, there needs to be a business case
articulating the “why” that executives across business,
IT, finance, security, and operations are aligned on.
Second, there needs to be a learning plan tailored to each
role so individuals can obtain new skills and neutralize
the FUD accompanying changes to how they work. Third,
there needs to be a “Cloud Center of Excellence” (CCoE)
team that harvests best practices, sets up and maintains
the landing zone, sets “principles” and blueprints for how
teams will scale usage/migration, and drives the fourth
and fifth best practices, which are good program
governance and a well-defined set of goals or an OKR
(objective and key results) to measure, inspect, and
quickly triage progress. With RaMP, our goal is to bring our product
portfolio and best practices together within a unified,
holistic approach. One that helps customers build a
business case and drive stakeholder alignment, assess and
close gaps on their people, process, and technology
readiness, disposition workloads into priority “migration
waves” segmented by migration strategy, create a landing
zone with adequate financial, security, and compliance
controls, decide what tools to use, execute a training and
enablement plan, establish a CCoE, set an OKR, pick the
right partner(s), and relentlessly manage the
migration. If you’re early in your journey, take advantage of our
quick
cloud capability assessment,
which helps determine where you are in your cloud journey
and how you can develop new competencies across your
business, financial, and technology plans. Alternatively,
if you know you’re heading to the cloud and need a
detailed discovery report with recommendations and cost
analysis based on your existing IT landscapes, then
request one of our
free assessments
today.
Key features
How RaMP works
RaMP's cycle of success
Migrations have been occurring in enterprise IT for decades (for example, mainframes to x86 to virtualization), with the migration life cycle remaining largely the same. The key to success? A smart, integrated migration program that flows intelligently and smoothly, represented below by our RaMP flywheel:
Opportunity evaluation
Understand exactly what your IT landscape looks like so you can properly map out your cloud-based options.
Foundation and planning
Understand which workloads are ideal for the cloud, how you will migrate them, and then build the foundation you'll need in your cloud.
Migrate and validate
Starting with the workloads that are most ideal for the cloud, begin your migrations. Analyze and evaluate at each step so that you can fine-tune for upcoming migrations.
Optimize and operate
Assess how workloads are performing in the cloud, tune as needed, and cut over fully to cloud-based operations.
Customers
Customers using RaMP to accelerate their migration success
Partners
Specialized RaMP partners
A select set of trusted partners that are capable of delivering high quality, complex migrations for our customers.
Partners that have achieved this specialization have
demonstrated success with data center transformation
of workloads from on-premises, private cloud, or other
public clouds.
These partners help make the journey to the cloud
easier and are handpicked to deliver a seamless
transition to Google Cloud—from foundation building to
migration execution.
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