Get to the Cloud Faster: The New Cloud Acceleration Toolset

Most Ping customers know by now that Ping’s proven software can be moved to Ping’s cloud. Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve built a migration path designed to take just 12 weeks. Moving to PingOne Advanced Services can help you free up 40-60% of your team’s resources spent maintaining your infrastructure and product operations, reduce your total cost of ownership, and improve your security posture. Today, you can be assured of a rapid, low-risk, low-effort migration from your existing software environment to PingOne Advanced Services, thanks to the benefits of the new Cloud Acceleration Toolset that Ping Identity is sharing with its implementation partners at no cost.

Traditionally, migrating software has been viewed as a daunting task. Organizations fear it will be a long, painful, and expensive process fraught with potential pitfalls. However, this perception is about to change, thanks to Ping Identity's innovative approach. Not only does this powerful toolset drastically reduce the time it takes to transition your systems initially, but subsequent upgrades are also automated and take less time to complete.

This open-source toolset is designed to help Ping’s Professional Services team and trusted implementation partners migrate your organization to Ping Identity’s cloud in as little as 12 weeks. Designed to simplify and expedite the cloud upgrade process, this open-source toolset makes it faster and easier to upgrade to the cloud than ever before.

Before we talk about how we can get your organization to Ping’s cloud, first, let’s back up and discuss why you would want to make the move to PingOne Advanced Services in the first place.

Proven Software, Cloud Convenience

PingOne Advanced Services offers a unique advantage by delivering the same tried-and-true software you're already using, now as a cloud service. This ensures a smooth transition while eliminating the hassles of managing product and infrastructure operations. With PingOne Advanced Services, your critical operations are in expert hands.

Private, Dedicated Environment

PingOne Advanced Services gives your organization full resource isolation, eradicating concerns about disruptions caused by "noisy neighbors." Moreover, your data remains secure and segregated from other organizations using the platform.

Exceptional Uptime and Managed Upgrades

Uptime is everything. PingOne Advanced Services delivers an impressive 99.99% uptime across regions, ensuring uninterrupted service. To minimize disruptions, upgrades are thoughtfully staggered, ensuring seamless service even during updates. Operates seamlessly across multiple data center locations worldwide, ensuring low-latency login experiences. With global and multi-region options, Ping Identity addresses evolving data residency and regulatory requirements.

Automatic and Seamless Scalability

Handling usage spikes is critical for modern businesses, and PingOne Advanced Services excels in this aspect. It employs DevOps best practices to enable autoscaling and autohealing, making it adaptable to fluctuating workloads. Thanks to a dedicated tenant environment, you can confidently scale your resources, whether for Black Friday or other high-traffic events, without manual intervention. Examples include an American consumer electronics company that experienced a 100x traffic surge during major events, and an aircraft manufacturer with a daily consumption of 80 billion requests. In both cases, PingOne Advanced Services effortlessly handled the increased load without any manual adjustments. And unlike some cloud identity service providers, PingOne Advanced Services doesn't throttle API requests or surprise you with unexpected bills during usage spikes. It offers transparent pricing and ensures cost predictability. The platform's cloud engineering team follows DevOps best practices, addressing security concerns comprehensively.

Stay in Control with Visibility and Flexibility

While Ping manages your infrastructure and product operations, we recognize the importance of providing visibility into your environment. PingOne Advanced Services offers options to subscribe to log files, integrate them with SIEM tools, and provides SMS alarming for enhanced visibility. Grafana and Kibana dashboards offer deep insights into platform operations.

At Ping, we prioritize customer retention and satisfaction and work to ensure that the upgrade process is as quick and painless as possible. We’ve been in this business for a long time and base our migration methods on industry best practices and years of hard-earned experience. With automation at its core, our toolset eliminates challenges and friction, making Ping the easiest and most rewarding upgrade option in the industry. By fostering collaboration between Ping and its partners, we create a thriving ecosystem that promotes seamless upgrades and rapid expansion. Together, we advance our tooling capabilities and drive more value for you.
 

• Repeatable patterns: We’ve learned to recognize patterns in how organizations migrate to the cloud. We understand the needs of your application owners, network administrators, and other essential stakeholders and will work with you to design a successful project migration plan. 
  
  
• Automation: We export your on-premise PingFederate, PingAccess, and PingDirectory configurations through an API, upgrade your products to the latest versions available, and import them to a cloud environment. Subsequent upgrades are automated. 
  
  
• Test the migration: We extensively test to ensure your products and services work as expected. We ensure that the tokens and assertion data match, and that authentication flows work in the cloud like they worked in the on-premise or cloud environments you managed previously. We can also work with you to perform custom testing that meets your needs. 
  
  
• Safe, simple access: When the migration is complete, you can safely access your cloud environment and manage it through a simple or command line interface.
  
  
• Open source: This toolset is publicly available and free to use. Modifications made to the toolset are shared with our partners and the community. 
  
  
• Flexibility: We believe in leveraging your existing frameworks and migrating at your own pace. We can help you do a flash cutover migration, where you migrate everything all at once, or you can have a phased migration, where you migrate small groups of users and applications during each phase. Regardless of your chosen approach, we’ll work closely with you and customize the migration process to meet your needs. 

PLAN:

• Performs a programmatic discovery of where and what configurations your client has in their environments today
• Delivers a manifest of the existing environment, including integration kits and applications, providing you the opportunity to perform environment and application hygiene as part of the project

ACCELERATE:

• Exports configuration from existing software
• Analyzes configuration and policies to prepare for an upgrade
• Upgrades each software instance to the required version for PingOne Advanced Services
• Imports all configurations as code into the new environment

TEST:

• Checks for configuration drift, performance, and functional regression to mitigate business risk during cutover

CUTOVER:

• Provides pattern-based approaches for customer cutover of various application types into service into PingOne Advanced Services, so you can work with your client to determine the best methodology for their organization. 

Ping Identity is unwavering in its commitment to security, visibility, and flexibility, and that’s why we are invested in ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud for our customers. Upgrade to PingOne Advanced Services today and experience a future-ready cloud solution tailored to your unique business needs. Talk to your implementation partner to ensure they use the Cloud Acceleration Toolset to get you where you need to go, fast.