Modernizing Infrastructure & Security with Google Cloud

This webinar was for business owners and managers already on G Suite or Google Workspace who still ran servers in their own offices. Yahya Zakir Sait and cloud expert Debasish Pramanik presented it.

The session opened with an overview of Google Cloud Platform and how it differs from the Workspace apps those companies already used. It then covered running Active Directory in the cloud, which Google offers as a managed service so domain controllers no longer sit in a server room. The third part was lift-and-shift: moving existing servers and applications to Google Cloud virtual machines largely as they are, before optimising them later. The last part covered enterprise security controls on Google Cloud.

The practical takeaway for a Gulf business: if Active Directory and a few file or application servers are the only reasons the server room exists, those are the first candidates to move. Lift-and-shift gets them off ageing hardware quickly, and the modernisation can follow in steps.