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CLOUD MIGRATION MANAGEMENT

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Best practices in migrating legacy applications and IT to Cloud providers

Practice Leaders from consultants, technology vendors

Point solutions – MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, SAP, …

REQUIREMENTS & BUSINESS BENEFITS

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Consolidation – Large enterprises operate multiple different email and network systems

Port applications across Clouds

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Cost control – Assign resources and track utilization through reporting

Asset management

WI3FM………..?What Is In It For Me?Project ManagersCapacity Planning & Estimating

ROI Calculation

Vendor Selection

Vendor Monitoring & Controlling

Risk Management

Business AnalystsBusiness Case Development

Feasibility

Skill-Set

Risk Analysis

TOOLS OVERVIEW

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Migration Planning

- Ni2 Cloud Migration Management

- VMware Cloud Readiness Self-Assessment

- Bit Titan MigrationWiz

- Gravitant cloudWiz

Cloud Management & Brokerage

- enStratus

- Skydera

- CloudFloor

- RightScale

Migration Planning

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Cloud Management & Brokerage

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The Process

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Assess the current situation

Create and coordinate the migration plan

3. DEPLOY2. DESIGN1. ASSESS

Design and assess future situation

ASSESS

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Audit data-centre : Applications, databases, contracts SLAs, network circuits, IP addresses, routers, sites, buildings, servers, SANs, PCs, cables, antennas, …

Complete inventory of all enterprise applications

Identify application dependencies

Determine each application’s true cost prior to migration via a multi-domain inventory: cost in space, power, maintenance, etc;

Analyze impact on users

Insight on which applications are candidates for cloud migration

DESIGN

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Map business requirements to Cloud configurations

Quickly identify the size and price of service

Model application future state in alternate scenarios

Design application architecture in the new cloud infrastructure

Generate BOM for Cloud resources

Generate migration project plan, listing all tasks of the deployment plan.

MIGRATE

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Manage deployment plan via Project Management practices and Gantt charts

Compare the future state (migration scenario) with the current state (CMDB) and establish changes

Schedule and track tasks execution

AUTOMATE

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Manage VM sprawl

Self-scaling capacity management

Automate manual IT processes – Patching, backup, ..

Automate service ticketing and operations

Integrated ordering, metering and billing

Track and manage compliance from a single point of control

Case studies & POINT SOLUTIONS

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Examples of client migrations: Online here.

CIMTrek: Convert Lotus Notes to Java or .net Cloud apps

Mailbox Connector :

NEXT STEPS

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Next steps