Amazon Web Services

AMAZON WEB SERVICES

GAIN THE POWER TO SCALE & GROW WITH ENTERPRISE APPLICATION MIGRATION

Sierra-Cedar can help you accelerate the migration of your Oracle applications and IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by providing services, tools, processes, and methodologies that meet your business goals. Leveraging our broad industry experience, we’re ready to help your organization realize the power of AWS to move faster, lower IT costs, and scale using our innovative services and processes.

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125+ AWS Certifications

90+ AWS Certified Employees

Private & Public Cloud Services since 2001

Managed Services Provider since 1999

CLIENT SUCCESS STORIES

How We Can Help

Cloud Foundation Readiness Assessment
Cloud Foundation Design
Cloud Migration Services

AWS Cloud Foundation Readiness Assessment

Cloud Foundation Readiness Assessment

We help your organization navigate through the breadth of AWS offerings and choose the services for current and future business needs. We then propose a clear path for a fast, secure, and cost-effective deployment to the cloud.

Initiate

Business vision and strategy
Cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) assessment
AWS education and awareness
Security, risk, and compliance awareness

Discover

Application discovery
Define interfaces in/out
TCO detail review
Evaluate security
Application cloud fit assessment

Select

Re-host with infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Re-purchase with software as a service (SaaS)
Re-implement with platform as a service (PaaS)
Re-architect combining IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

AWS Cloud Foundation Design

We help your organization establish an initial cloud infrastructure, including network, security, account setup, and identity management utilizing AWS recommended best practices.

Best Practices

Define required AWS services
Build a transition plan and set timelines
Plan for global and high availability
Plan for expandable capacity
Plan for horizontal & vertical scaling
Plan for databases requirements
Design for no single point of failure
Plan to optimize costs

Proof of Concept

We will work with your team to conduct a cloud migration proof-of-concept exercise for a focused set of business requirements.

Cloud Migration Services

An AWS cloud migration can provide the agility, scalability, security, reliability, and operational efficiency well beyond that of a traditional data center.

Sierra-Cedar delivers a seamless migration by analyzing your organization’s current architecture, charting the best processes for faster transformation, confirming that all system dependencies and data interfaces are aligned, and making sure that the cloud infrastructure can support your organization’s business objectives after the transformation.

Cloud Managed Services
FlexOps Platform Services
App-to-Cloud Packages

Cloud Managed Services

We provide best-in-class commercial service-level agreements and a host of other benefits, including:

Auto-healing
Less downtime for patching
99.96% application availability service levels
Fewer and shorter maintenance windows
24/7 Cloud Services Help Desk
Continuous automation, governance, utilization, and optimization

FlexOps Platform Services

Sierra-Cedar’s proprietary tool, FlexOps, is a service platform developed and used by Sierra-Cedar Managed Services to build, monitor, patch, and manage applications and infrastructure in AWS at a competitive price point. FlexOps is used to design and automate the building of custom and prepackaged applications.

An Advanced Tool

FlexOps offers advantages in speed and cost of implementation and ongoing management:

Providing a simple intuitive dashboard with simple, one-click, guided deployments
Replacing manually designed architecture with intelligent, robust, and responsive best-practices in security, governance, availability, performance, and operational efficiency
Supporting a growing list of new prepackaged infrastructures

App-to-Cloud Packages

Your organization may be using several applications for finance, human resources, payroll, and other business functions. Deploying applications in the cloud promotes cost benefits and enhances scalability and flexibility.

We offer a bundled, fully managed service, leveraging our proprietary FlexOps platform, to build, monitor, patch, support, and administer your most important applications using the AWS public cloud infrastructure.

Migration to AWS with Sierra-Cedar has several advantages, including:

No lock-in
Flexibility to use your AWS account or ours
Transition in three to six months
Best-in-class service-level agreements
Secure platform
Active configurations

We provide end-to-end services and solutions for many applications, including:

PeopleSoft on AWS
eBusiness Suite on AWS
Oracle BI on AWS
Hyperion on AWS
Disaster Recovery as a Service
WordPress on AWS

Our Clients

Our experience with Sierra-Cedar has been excellent. They not only helped us plan and execute the migration of Hyperion Planning and Budgeting application to AWS but also guided us to get the full benefit of all AWS services.

Vijay Badal, Director Application Services, DOTComm

Sierra-Cedar was instrumental in assisting K-State with restoring our production HR System and migrating the system to AWS, allowing us to meet our immediate payroll deadline. They have also assisted us in staging other ERP systems for DR/BC capability in the future.

Gary L. Pratt, Chief Information Officer, Kansas State University

We needed a simple solution with 24/7 availability that met payment card industry compliance requirements to interface ePay with another external system.

Mike Piram, ERP Program Manager, Ramsey County

FEATURED SUCCESS STORY

Kansas State University Migrates PeopleSoft HCM to AWS in under 48 Hours After a Data Center Disaster

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Kansas State University

Sierra-Cedar Migrates Kansas State University’s PeopleSoft Production HR System to AWS in Under 48 Hours

K-State’s datacenter, located in the basement of Hale Library, sustained extensive water and smoke damage as a result of a three-alarm roof fire. With only a few days to meet an upcoming deadline that required the PeopleSoft HR system to be operational for payroll processing and transmission, Sierra-Cedar worked with K-State staff over the Memorial Day weekend to migrate K-State’s Production HR system to AWS.

Key Project Highlights:

Migrated PeopleSoft HR Production environment to AWS
Established security-aware architecture
Helped improve batch processing and OLTP performance

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Kansas State University

Kansas State University’s PeopleSoft HCM Migrates to AWS in under 48 Hours After a Data Center Disaster

After extensive water and smoke damage to its data center, K-State engaged Sierra-Cedar to assist with recovery efforts. With only a few days to meet an upcoming deadline that required the PeopleSoft HR system to be operational for payroll processing and transmission to the State of Kansas, Sierra-Cedar worked with K-State staff over the Memorial Day weekend to migrate its Production HR system to AWS.

Key Project Highlights:

Migrated PeopleSoft HR Production environment to AWS
Established security-aware architecture
Helped improve batch processing and OLTP performance

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DOTComm

DOTComm Reduces Cost and Gains Flexibility through Amazon Web Services

Sierra-Cedar and DOTComm worked together to architect and deploy the infrastructure to host Hyperion in AWS. Three AWS services were deployed. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) was also deployed to segregate its network with a site-to-site virtual private network.

Key Project Highlights:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) as the compute layer for the Hyperion metadata store
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) for application binary storage
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for secure, durable, and highly scalable object storage

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Kansas State University
Ramsey County
Sierra-Cedar

Ramsey County

Ramsey County Minimizes Risk and Meets Regulatory Compliance Requirements with Amazon Web Services Solution

With the help of Sierra-Cedar, Ramsey County was able to realize the benefits of the cloud and create a highly available application architecture for components of this critical application. Ramsey County now has the capability and agility to leverage AWS for other critical applications as part of its cloud strategy and continues using Sierra-Cedar as its fully hosted cloud provider.

Key Project Highlights:

Met compliance requirement
24×7 availability with zero downtime
Automatically scales for peak workloads
End-to-End encryption in transit
Automated deployment stack
Zero downtime for operating system patching

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Sierra-Cedar

Sierra-Cedar Obtains a High-Availability Environment by Deploying PeopleSoft Application in the AWS Cloud

Sierra-Cedar has successfully created a cost-effective, scalable architecture for its PeopleSoft environments. It now has the capability and agility to select EC2 instances to meet current demands, change instance types when workloads exceed demand, manage performance by automatically scaling server resources in/out, and manage costs by running non-production instances only when required by the business.

Key Project Highlights:

Formation of dedicated operations and product delivery teams
Rethinking administration and infrastructure designs
Testing and deploying AWS services not widely used for ERP applications (such as RDS, EFS, Route 53, and ELB)
Better understanding of the strengths and gaps of the architectures being developed
Close working relationship developed and enhanced with AWS to address any challenges
Development of automation designed to reduce the labor burden for administrators
User experience improvements
Scalability during peak usage times
Segmentation and security of the AWS hosted solution
Operational efficiencies around patching, monitoring, and planned maintenance windows

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AMAZON WEB SERVICES

GAIN THE POWER TO SCALE & GROW WITH ENTERPRISE APPLICATION MIGRATION

Please submit your information below and an AWS professional will contact you!

125+ AWS Certifications

90+ AWS Certified Employees

Private & Public Cloud Services since 2001

Managed Services Provider since 1999

How We Can Help

Our Clients

FEATURED SUCCESS STORY

Kansas State University Migrates PeopleSoft HCM to AWS in under 48 Hours After a Data Center Disaster

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