While the immense benefits of cloud adoption are clear, there remains a huge potential in reducing its hefty price tag.
Upgrading, refreshing, or migrating your cloud solutions improves data analysis, global scale on-demand, and significant cost savings to your applications, operations, and customer services.
UNDERSTANDING YOUR NEEDS
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Cloud Migration Process
You’re concerned about the complexity and potential disruptions during the cloud migration process, including data loss and downtime, and whether your team has the necessary skills to adopt the technology effectively.
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Cost of Cloud
You’re hesitant about the initial investment and scaling costs, needing to know where to switch resources or cut spending during inactivity without sacrificing functionality, speed, or security.
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Cloud Governance
Retaining control over your IT infrastructure and data security once it’s moved to the cloud, especially to avoid vendor lock-in.
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Sustainability
You’re unsure about the environmental impact of cloud computing and seeking sustainable solutions.
Why choose Alumni?
Benefit from a deep understanding of your IT infrastructure, business goals, and in-house capabilities, delivered by our core team of former CTOs, Solution Delivery Leads, UX Designers, Architects, and Development Engineers.
We evaluate your organisation’s readiness for migrating, from the existing IT setup, business objectives, skillset and culture, financial implications, operational impact, and technology compatibility.
Detailed planning, design, and testing of how each component of your IT will migrate or be upgraded – this may involve lifting and shifting applications as they are, rearchitecting them into more modern services, or replacing them entirely with more efficient solutions.
The target environment is rigorously validated and evaluated on security and stability, implementing measures to continuously optimise cost with performance and cybersecurity.
Cloud Architects and ITIL accredited Service Consultants provide training for your in-house teams to manage the cloud estate and achieve zero preventable downtime.
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With the rise in digital solutions in the region, one of the four leading banks in South Africa sought to enhance its agility and responsiveness by adopting new, customer-focused cloud computing.
Its wide range of onshore and offshore banking services led the team at Alumni to establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) to centralize expertise, best practices, and governance in compliance with regulatory standards.
We also integrated Agile methodologies into the software development process, supporting a structured and rapid adoption path.
The bank has now successfully migrated most of its workloads to the cloud, with a self-sustaining CoE that helped them launch products in record time, make better-informed decisions, and better predict necessary investments.
Our Consultants, in previous roles and at Alumni, have also completed similar engagements for five other banks in South Africa. In partnership with Fintech Galaxy, Alumni designed Agile training and coaching programmes tailored to our client’s unique needs, delivered through engaging digital platforms and in-person active learning.
services for every need
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Hybrid Cloud Architecture and Adoption
Formulate a strategic approach to adopt multi-cloud solutions with a large, proven library of customisable architecture templates, automation scripts, and integration patterns to reduce time-to-market and enhance the flexibility of your adoption.
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Application Migration and Modernisation
Improve functionality, performance, and integration by migrating and upgrading your legacy systems with cloud-native capabilities and a keen focus on data integrity and availability.
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Devsecops and Automation
Accelerate reliable software delivery in the cloud through advanced continuous innovation and deployment tools, automation, performance tuning, and disaster recovery and backup plans.
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Cloud FinOps and Optimisation
Utilise cost management software, dynamic forecasting tools, and detailed consumption analysis models to drive smarter and cost-efficient cloud operations.
MEET OUR cloud EXPERTS
Andrew Marsh
Chief Disruption Officer, Data Lead
Andrew Marsh
Chief Disruption Officer, Data Lead
Andrew is a highly skilled enterprise architect who has led and coordinated major business and IT transformation across multiple industries for over 15 years. His core skills encompass IT, Project and Human Resource Management, and tactical and strategic planning. He possesses extensive experience in the delivery of large-scale projects.
Dave Jenkins
Technical Lead, UK
Dave Jenkins
Technical Lead, UK
Dave Jenkins has an impressive 20+ year track record of driving organisational transformation across a significant number of sectors. His highly motivated and passionate approach to driving business technology adoption and evolution at the CXO level makes him an invaluable addition to Alumni UK.
Steven Yates
CTO, Director
STEVEN YATES
CTO, Director
Steven is a Togaf Certified transformation consultant and technology strategist with more than 20 years’ experience in the logistics and banking sector. His specialities include Dev-Ops, Cloud, Data, and PS.
Shoaib Bagwan
Senior Lead Software Engineer
Shoaib Bagwan
Senior Lead Software Engineer
Shoaib is a seasoned senior lead software engineer with over a decade of expertise in developing cutting-edge web and mobile applications. Proficient in both Native and Hybrid technologies, he thrives on crafting solutions that meet the unique needs of every project.
Ronald Ng
Head of Technology (Hong Kong)
Ronald Ng
Head of Technology (Hong Kong)
Ronald is a technology leader with 16 years of IT experience MNCs in client-facing roles. He transforms customers IT capability to deliver new ways of creating business value and enabling agility in operations. The unique combination of business knowledge and Ronald’s technical background, is a perfect storm to spawn new value strategies, developing technology planning, whilst working with existing capabilities and partnering with vendors and/or service teams to deliver results.
