Overview
Since many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are migrating to the cloud, ISVs are also transforming from traditional IT services to more elastic, easy-to-use, cost-efficient cloud services to serve their SME customers better. Alibaba Cloud supports SME business successes and understands what they value most. Based on the best practices while working with SME customers, Alibaba Cloud’s optimal ISV cloud migration solutions curate the necessary products to pave the shortest path to your new cloud business. It provides your SME customers with greater cost savings and faster time-to-market.
Why Alibaba Cloud?
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Cost Savings
Alibaba Cloud offers Free ECS Instances to help ISVs save operating costs. ISVs can also get started for free with different cloud products from Free Trials.
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Reliable Global Networking
Alibaba Cloud operates 85 availability zones in 28 regions worldwide. You can leverage the global cloud network to help your customers deploy applications worldwide with a few clicks.
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Comprehensive Security and Compliance
Alibaba Cloud provides reliable and secure cloud products and top-notch compliance services to help you and your customers comply with local regulations effortlessly and economically.
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Fast Cloud Migration
This solution is designed for quick wins and packs up the necessary cloud products that ISVs need to start cloud businesses, making your cloud migration faster.
ISV Cloud Migration with Three Steps
- Set up a Global Cloud Network
- Set up and accelerate reliable global networks.
- Migrate Data to the Cloud
- Migrate servers, databases, and data to the cloud.
- Deploy Web Applications
- Host website and web applications on the cloud.
Step1 – Set Up a Global Cloud Networking
Choose the desirable solution according to your challenges.
Challenges and Solutions
Building a reliable global cloud network is the key to the ISV business. Alibaba Cloud can help with four steps. First, create network resources including Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and vSwitch. Second, configure network security policies based on the routing plans and subnet access control list (ACL). Third, create resources such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Server Load Balancer (SLB), and deploy the applications on the cloud. Last, configure policies, such as resource whitelists, to enhance security.
See Building an Auto Scaling System on Alibaba Cloud for a step-by-step guide.
Solution Highlights
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Quick Deployment - Set up your global cloud networking in less than 20 minutes with four simple steps
High Elasticity - Adjust your network resources dynamically according to your different stages
Cost Efficiency - Only pay for public network resources without investing in internal network resources
Elastic IP Address
An independent public IP resource that decouples ECS and public IP resources
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Challenges and Solutions
Fast-growing applications bring ISVs new challenges on the cross-region network quality, deployment, and cost. This solution speeds up your global network and applications. You can fill in the information of your business to receive the suggested acceleration plans according to your business needs. This way, you can purchase instances and bandwidth packages according to the plans. Then, add the client access zone for acceleration, add ports and protocols for monitoring, and configure services for the target backend and CNAME for DNS. Lastly, test the acceleration result.
Solution Highlights
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Simple Deployment - Deploy Global Accelerator with a few clicks in minutes
Global Acceleration - Deploy acceleration nodes worldwide regardless of domain name location
Guaranteed Security - Seamlessly integrate with CDN and Anti-DDoS for a secure cloud network
Challenges and Solutions
Traditional global networks cannot be expanded flexibly according to business changes, and low-quality networks slows down application access and affects the business experience. This solution uses the Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) and Smart Access Gateway (SAG) to connect your businesses on and off the cloud. Choose the SAG devices and bandwidth, install SAG, and deploy the network locally. Then, activate SAG on the cloud and finish the configuration. Next, create and load the CEN instances, configure settings (such as cross-region bandwidth), and test the inter-connections of the network. Lastly, you can choose to configure the monitoring settings.
See Building a Global Network Architecture on Alibaba Cloud for a step-by-step guide.
Solution Highlights
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High Elasticity - Scalable network with fast deployment in minutes
High Reliability - Automatic optimization for redundant connections
Multi-Access Support - Diverse connections support including mobile, virtual private networks, and 4G
Express Connect
High-bandwidth, reliable, secure, and private connections between different environments
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Contact SalesStep 2 – Migrate to the Cloud
Migrate Servers to the Cloud
Alibaba Cloud’s Server Migration Center (SMC) helps you migrate one or more sources including data center servers, virtual machines, and servers from other cloud platforms to Alibaba Cloud. Set up the source servers and the SMC console and import the information of the source server to the SMC console. You can create and run a migration task in the SMC console. See Migrating Your Servers to Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service for a step-by-step guide.
Solution Highlights
• Support for various platforms and environments
• No reliance on the underlying environment of servers
• Secured data migration with zero downtime
• Light weight with flexible configurations
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Migrate Data to the Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Data Online Migration service helps you migrate data between local data centers, other cloud platforms, and Alibaba Cloud. Using a customized data transport device with the Data Transport helps transmit Terabytes or Petabytes of data at high speeds from offline data centers to Object Storage Service or from online data centers to Alibaba Cloud directly. See Migrating Data from an On-premises Store to Alibaba Cloud for a step-by-step guide.
Solution Highlights
• Support for migration of data in various formats
• Faster data migration with higher security and flexibility
• Support on remote disaster recovery and active-active data center architecture
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Migrate Databases to the Cloud
Alibaba Cloud Data Transmission Service (DTS) helps you migrate databases from various sources and platforms to Alibaba Cloud. First, create DTS instances for migration, synchronization, and subscription. Next, create migration tasks based on the source type and data target to migrate the data. Then, create data synchronization tasks to synchronize data in real-time or create data subscription channels to obtain data changes.
Solution Highlights
• Support for various types of databases
• Fast and secure database migration
• Support on remote disaster recovery and active-active data center architecture
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Contact SalesStep 3 – Deploy on the Cloud
Challenges and Solutions
ISVs want to spend less time and resources providing web services to more customers. This requires sharing public resources with high elasticity. This solution helps you build an ECS server with cPanel and Plesk, deploy multiple websites on the same server, and store files on OSS. All data are distributed to different websites through EIP, Plesk, and cPanel. When traffic increases significantly, you can build a new pay-as-you-go ECS server with cPanel and Plesk to migrate some websites to the new server and modify DNS to the new EIP. When traffic decreases, you can migrate the websites back to the original ECS server and release the newly built server to save costs.
Solution Highlights
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Easy Website Registration and Design - Register a domain and start your website with exclusive website design providers
High Elasticity - Combine your business with elastic computing, storage, networking as needed
Elastic Compute Service
Elastic and secure virtual cloud servers to cater all your cloud hosting needs
View DetailElastic IP Address
An independent public IP resource that decouples ECS and public IP resources for flexible management
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Challenges and Solutions
When launching a new business online, customers look for agile and cost-effective deployments. The goal is to scale up the business rapidly if it is well-received by the market and minimize financial losses in case of failure. This solution provides great flexibility for new business ventures. It helps you set up an application based on separate application and database servers quickly, supports automatic failover and horizontal scaling to improve application availability, and allows you to set up efficient caching to speed up website loading and reduce latency.
See Setting up a Typical Application Deployment for New Businesses on Alibaba Cloud for a step-by-step guide.
Solution Highlights
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Quick Deployment - Set up an application based on separate servers
High Availability - Enable automatic failover and horizontal scaling
High Performance - Set up efficient caching to speed up website loading and reduce latency
CDN
A scalable and high-performance content delivery service for accelerated distribution of content to users across the globe
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Alibaba Cloud Best Practices for Cloud Migration
Best Practice
Building an Auto Scaling System on Alibaba Cloud
Deploy your application on an auto scaling architecture, which automatically adjusts the compute capacity in response to traffic fluctuations.
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Building a Global Network Architecture on Alibaba Cloud
Build a global network architecture that ensures smooth and secure communications between different regions.
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Migrating Your Servers to Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service
Migrate your workloads from on-premises data center or a third-party cloud virtual machine to an Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance.
Best Practice
Migrating Data from an On-premises Store to Alibaba Cloud
Migrate data from an on-premises store to a NAS file system that is mounted on an ECS instance. Utilize Internet shared bandwidth to enable rapid data transmission at affordable costs.
Best Practice
Setting up a Typical Application Deployment for New Businesses on Alibaba Cloud
Launch a new business online in an efficient, economical, highly scalable, and flexible manner with high performance.
