The Rapid Migration and Modernization Program (RaMP) is Google Cloud’s program for migration and modernization: a four-phase methodology complemented by tools, partners, and migration incentives.
What Is the Rapid Migration and Modernization Program?
Google Cloud describes RaMP as a program whose proven methodology and tools provide a fast, seamless migration and modernization experience. Google Cloud names three supporting elements:
- A clear path forward: Analyze your IT estate with data-driven discovery to build a transparent transition plan with clear timelines, costs, resources, and business cases
- Proven methodology: A unified framework of best practices, blueprints, and governance models with built-in security, compliance, and training
- Valuable incentives: Flexible proposals, partner funding, and migration incentives in a transparent, outcome-based structure
Core Features
- Assess: Data-driven discovery of the existing environment, identification of the highest-value workloads, total cost of ownership calculations, and performance benchmarks
- Plan: A modernization plan tailored to your goals that leverages AI-powered migration services and builds the foundational cloud infrastructure including identity management and networking
- Migrate: Co-funding to de-risk the migration, sized by your qualified workloads and unlocked through accurate workload tagging
- Innovate: Activation of data and applications with AI and analytics tools plus optimization of the new environment for performance, cost, and scalability
Typical Use Cases
Discovery Before the Migration Decision
Data-driven discovery of the existing IT estate as the basis for timelines, costs, and the business case.
Structured Migration of Large Workload Portfolios
Execution along a unified framework of best practices, blueprints, and governance models.
Modernization After Migration
Optimize the environment for performance, cost, and scalability and activate data with analytics and AI tools.
Benefits
- Predictability: Clear timelines, costs, resources, and business cases before starting
- Standardization: Best practices, blueprints, and governance models instead of ad hoc approaches
- Commercial incentives: Flexible proposals, partner funding, and outcome-based migration incentives
- Guidance: Select partners and Google Cloud Consulting for complex migrations
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud partner, innFactory supports you with the Rapid Migration and Modernization Program: preparing the assessment, building the migration plan, tagging workloads correctly, and executing the migration.
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is RaMP?
According to Google Cloud, the Rapid Migration and Modernization Program (RaMP) is a program whose proven methodology and tools provide a fast, seamless migration and modernization experience. Google Cloud describes three elements: a clear path forward through data-driven discovery, a proven methodology with best practices, blueprints, and governance models, and valuable incentives in the form of flexible proposals, partner funding, and migration incentives.
What phases does RaMP consist of?
Google Cloud names four phases. In Assess, a thorough data-driven discovery of the existing environment identifies the highest-value workloads, performs total cost of ownership calculations, and establishes performance benchmarks. In Plan, experts collaborate on a modernization plan tailored to your goals and build the foundational cloud infrastructure including identity management and networking. In Migrate, Google Cloud provides co-funding. In Innovate, data and applications on Google Cloud are activated with AI and analytics tools and the environment is optimized.
How do the incentives work?
In the Migrate phase, Google Cloud provides co-funding based on the size of your qualified workloads. This requires accurately tagging those workloads to unlock your commercial funds and incentives. Google Cloud provides a RaMP Tracking and Incentive Guide and a Tagging Workloads Guide for this.
Which tools are part of it?
Within RaMP, Google Cloud points to Migration Center as well as AI-powered migration services intended to massively reduce manual effort during planning.
Who carries out the migration?
Google Cloud points to a select set of trusted partners capable of delivering complex migrations, as well as Google Cloud Consulting. A partner overview is accessible from the program page.
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