Top 10: Cloud Migration Consultants

Cloud migration has become critical for enterprises to speed up innovation and enhance operational efficiency, particularly as hybrid cloud strategies and AI transformation continue to emerge. 

As more businesses seek to migrate to the cloud, the realisation that it is a very complex undertaking sets in. Challenges concerning architecture and security arise require great internal skillsets and specialised expertise, which often means that cloud migration consultants are required to help.

With this in mind, Data Centre Magazine lists some of the leading cloud migration consultants that can help business leaders and IT decision-makers migrate successfully.

10. Capgemini

• HQ: Paris, France
• CEO: Aiman Ezzat
• Founded: 1967

Capgemini provides cloud migration services and assists businesses with their cloud adoption, which includes conducting readiness assessments and implementation roadmaps. 

Its Transformation to Cloud offering automates the journey by standardising processes while providing industry and customer-differentiating tools. The offering helps companies assess and choose the right path for their journey to cloud and design and migrate rapidly, efficiently and in a cost-effective manner.

Supporting a range of cloud platforms, Capgemini has notable alliances with AWS, Google and Microsoft to support IT transformation for clients globally.

9. Wipro

• HQ: Bengaluru, India
• CEO: Srini Pallia
• Founded: 1945

Wipro offers a solution for cloud adoption, migration and integration. Notably, its Cloud Migration Studio provides an automated capability, combining intellectual property with tools for migrations.

The company’s services include application modernisation and data centre transformation, with Wipro using AI-driven approaches to transform legacy systems into cloud-based solutions. The result is that businesses are able to scale their offerings at a much faster rate.

It also supports enterprises in realising cloud potential, addressing insights, security, cost efficiency and workforce agility for operations.

8. Cognizant

• HQ: New Jersey, US
• CEO: Ravi Kumar S
• Founded: 1994

Cognizant brings cloud solution expertise, deep industry knowledge and partnerships to migrate, integrate, automate, manage and deliver the outcomes that fuel a company’s innovation and growth.

Its Cloud Migrate tool by Cognizant is specifically designed to accelerate business adoption journeys with a low-risk factory approach that addresses migration challenges with a comprehensive framework. This tool reduces time-to-market and adds value to cloud-enabled business transformation projects, whilst also following a defined set of processes built on what we call the Cognizant Cloud Steps Transformation Framework.

7. EY

• HQ: London, UK
• CEO: Janet Truncale
• Founded: 1989

EY is a leading data centre consultant that offers end-to-end guidance from data centre formation and development to acquisition and divestiture activity. Their services aim to address industry challenges, including data centre demand impact on utilities, financing complexities and balancing growth with sustainability. 

When it comes to the cloud, EY Business transformation through cloud services helps organizations to turn technology disruption into value and builds long-term value for customers, people, society and business by innovating in the cloud.

6. Deloitte

• HQ: London, UK
• CEO: Joe Ucuzoglu
• Founded: 1845

Deloitte offers a comprehensive suite of data centre consulting services, ranging from cloud migration and infrastructure optimisation to data centre modernisation and data management. 

Its expertise spans various aspects of data centre operations, including infrastructure management, cloud adoption and technology-driven transformation. Likewise, its global network delivers tailored solutions to address business challenges, supporting clients in positioning their on-premise data centres as internal, operationally optimised resources.

Concerning cloud migration, the organisation works with its clients to help them scale their ideas with cloud as fast and successfully as possible – leveraging its team of cloud native specialists, dev-ops engineers and business analysts.

5. HCLTech

• HQ: Noida, India
• CEO: C Vijayakumar
• Founded: 1976

HCLTech provides data centre consulting and design management services. The firm helps operators facilitate transitions to next-generation service delivery platforms, with its expertise including data centre optimisation, migration and consolidation. 

Its Managed Cloud Services offers comprehensive support for cloud migration, from architecture design to workload migration, as it seeks to enhance agility, scalability and business value.

The company is also eager to address scalability and flexibility for businesses, with its V-Transform Framework guiding organisations in how to best reduce costs and improve efficiency. Its partner ecosystem and analytics-led approach helps by evaluating the present scenario and helps enterprises with IT transformation initiatives.

4. Infosys

• HQ: Bengaluru, India
• CEO: Salil Parekh
• Founded: 1981

Infosys provides cloud migration services that seek to transform legacy systems for scalability, security and cost reduction. Its cloud practice refreshes IT networks, hardware and storage systems without disrupting data or transaction processing, whilst also extending the lifetime of legacy investments to effect real business transformation.

The Infosys Migration Planning Suite seeks to maximise value and mitigates risks by determining the business strategy of transferring applications to a reliable cloud platform. It also transforms web applications, legacy virtual servers, databases and ERP systems for Cloud Native Technology Platform and works to enhance network reliability. 

3. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

• HQ: Mumbai, India
• CEO: K Krithivasan
• Founded: 1968

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Mumbai, India, TCS offers a comprehensive portfolio designed to drive innovation and deliver tangible business results. 

The firm re-engineers data centre infrastructure to align capacity with business outcomes, eager to address technological challenges and cost pressures. A dedicated team provides round-the-clock support to support scalability and enhance data security.

Its approach to migrating business applications to the cloud aligns organisational goals with digital transformation as a first step, enabling a balanced migration-modernisation journey.

2. Accenture

• HQ: Dublin, Ireland
• CEO: Julie Sweet
• Founded: 1989

Accenture, established in 1989, is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries, Accenture offers Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services – all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres.

The company focuses on building “ever-ready” IT infrastructure that supports businesses. It seeks to provide reliable, secure and scalable solutions for data centre outsourcing and hybrid infrastructure management.

Its Cloud Data Migration tool helps businesses navigate cloud complexities and offers support on building landing zones and regulating data sovereignty, among other things.

1. IBM

• HQ: Armonk, NY, US
• CEO: Arvind Krishna
• Founded: 1911

IBM Consulting Cloud Migration Services is designed to help manage cloud migration for businesses so that they can focus on everything else. The tech giant says it helps migrate a company’s workloads to the public cloud or private cloud or modernised data centre to enable digital transformation. 

It supports a range of migration patterns, including cloud to cloud, cloud to on-prem, on-prem to cloud and on-prem to on-prem. The tech giant has a wealth of experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud and so its team is well-positioned to offer a continuous approach to a business’ migration plan. 

The company leverages migration tools and assets and incorporates built-in automation and Gen AI at every phase to help companies across every stage of their migration journey.