An innovator helping the largest, most security-conscious enterprises, migrate and manage their cloud infrastructure at scale: Sourced

Sourced is a rapidly-growing global consultancy with offices around the globe. Founded in 2010, it provides consulting services to migrate enterprise customers to hyperscale cloud providers. Sourced specializes in organization-wide cloud transformation and DevOps enablement for a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, aviation, media and telecommunications. The company works with some of the largest and most security-conscious organizations around the world to help them unlock innovation through cloud computing. Cloud adoption is more than migrating traditional on-premise systems to the cloud. It is about focusing on the people, tools, and processes that enable large-scale material change and increase speed to market. At Sourced, not only can they help your organization plan, build, and run your cloud infrastructure, they also ensure that effective security and compliance controls are in place, enabling you to scale with agility.

Cloud is a proven technology platform, with security and reliability far more significant than any one organization can implement or maintain itself. At Sourced, the team encourages clients to view cloud as more than a technology solution, but one that encompasses people, tools and processes. The adoption of cloud must be carefully considered, mapped, and aligned to organizational objectives for it to scale with enterprise growth. Technology innovation is primarily driven by the business areas closest to the customer, owing to a desire to compete and maintain an edge in the market. These initiatives become the catalyst for cloud adoption, often resulting in enterprises taking a hasty workload approach to cloud adoption with minimal involvement from the organization’s central IT teams. As a workload approach is tailored solely to a specific workload, it can deliver short-term velocity but presents difficulties when the next wave of workloads begins their migration journey. Based on over a decade of experience, Sourced consultants advise organizations to adopt the platform approach. This approach sees business units integrating tightly with the centralized IT team to form a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE), with a mission to build core cloud capability that can be leveraged and replicated across the entire enterprise. The platform approach allows for a consistent control plane across several applications and centralizes functions such as networking, billing and security. The scalable foundation enables the cloud to operate as a platform with the workload being used as a masthead to drive delivery. This critical element of cloud adoption is an essential part of Sourced’s Cloud at Scale™ methodology.

Cloud at Scale™

Sourced has developed a proven cloud agnostic solution to help enterprise clients launch their cloud initiatives. It’s designed to achieve early wins and lay the foundation for an ongoing cloud adoption journey. Aptly named Cloud at Scale™, this solution allows large enterprises in highly regulated industries to adopt cloud quickly, while ensuring strict governance and controls. At the heart of the solution is a Sourced-built secure and compliant, enterprise-grade virtual data center in the cloud, along with an initial set of pre-defined consumables (templates) that contain the enterprise’s security, compliance and deployment opinions. This virtual data center becomes the foundation on which the entire cloud journey is built and grows — from a single workload, to 10, 100 and beyond.

Workload Migration Service

Organizations adopt various pathways to achieve the ultimate goal of cloud transformation programs, that of migrating the majority, if not all, of their application portfolio from on-premise to public cloud. This migration allows businesses to reap the benefits of cloud computing, including increased agility, better resiliency and a stronger culture of innovation across their organization. Based on a decade of experience, Sourced has ascertained that a successful mass migration journey starts with identifying and successfully moving one masthead application workload to the cloud. This allows an organization’s Cloud Centre of Excellence to embed the learnings into reusable patterns that streamline future migrations. Sourced has developed a program to help enterprise clients increase their cloud initiatives. It is designed to improve scalability and cost reduction aligning to a pay-as-you-go consumption model. It challenges enterprises to rethink what has been done in the traditional server-based approach and software delivery model, moving away from monolithic applications towards microservice-based architectures. The Serverless Adoption Programme is a consulting and acceleration track designed to help security conscious and highly regulated organizations move towards Serverless-first, enabling innovation while ensuring strict compliance and governance. The Serverless adoption programme is a combination of training, advocacy, and technology in areas such as DevOps, best practices, and example architecture. It is highly customizable to suit different organizations. For example: Application teams can start at any level with their upskilling, or skip this entirely, depending on their existing Serverless experience. On the technology side, organizations can implement an existing cloud management and DevOps strategy, or create a completely new parallel strategy that is optimized for Serverless.

Cloud Security

A key pillar of every well-architected cloud platform is security. Managing emerging threats and new vulnerabilities present a challenge that all enterprises need to address. At the core of this is automation and good governance, as 95% of security incidents begin with human error. Whether these incidents are intentional, or the result of inadequate training or inefficient procedures, does not lessen the adverse impact, be it monetary or reputational, that enterprises would be exposed to. A common trend sees many enterprises trying to address these security challenges by simply extending their data center practices and procedures to cloud environments. This often results in a security posture that does not meet the standards specified in the Information Security Manual (ISM) of the enterprise, leaving cloud platforms underused and hosting non-critical workloads. Our Sourced consultants take a cloud-centric holistic approach to security that embraces established cyber security frameworks and applies them using a mix of automation, native cloud tools and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) products. This approach creates a multi-layered defense for data assets hosted on public cloud.

Jon Spinks, Founder and CEO

“Sourced was founded with the goal of assisting large enterprises gain a competitive advantage by harnessing disruptive technologies to enable a better way of doing IT.”