Cloud Migration

Management
Best practices for migrating
IT to the Cloud

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About
Problem Statement
Cloud Computing can be an ideal solution when customers find themselves faced with a
number of pressing issues:
Long-time delays to secure IT resources, resulting in a growing backlog of service
requests
Explosive growth of unstructured content driving demand for more and more
storage
Poor utilization and cost optimization - There is an unnecessarily expensive
growth of IT costs due to mismatching the right services
The current data centre platform doesn't support the new application architecture
Lack of budgeting and cost controls - There is no awareness of what IT is costing
and how this breaks down
These are all pain point scenarios that Cloud services are ideal for addressing through
moving to ITaaS IT as a Service. Applications can be modernized and deployed to
utility IT environments that can scale dynamically
in response to fluctuating needs.

Cloud Migration Management

Cloud Migration Management (CMM) refers to
the best practices for planning and managing this
migration of IT systems, from a legacy platform to
a Cloud Provider through a combination
professional services consulting and software
tools, a CMM engagement delivers:
Control how cloud services are being
purchased and consumed with the IT organization
Establishing a data center consolidation plan and measurements for effective
transformation and governance, including cost tracking model, enabling new data
centre services to be delivered on time and on budget
Audit and assessment of your current IT landscape - Quickly identify areas with
highest ROI and value to the IT organization
Target architecture testing - Simulate your planned Cloud architecture
Enable successful sourcing strategies to support cloud initiatives and goals Identify and baseline cost, capability and risk metrics for each cloud initiative,
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quickly size & price each cloud service from a vendor for a given solution
requirement; Organize and structure cloud services to match business service and
application portfolio
Model and map services across multiple Cloud providers - One for Dev Test,
another for BCP and Amazon for storage

Business Transformation - Planning Cloud ROI

For organizations considering a move to Cloud services, its first helpful to consider there
are different levels of Business Transformation that can be engaged.
Defining this framework is central to planning and delivering the ROI that Cloud can
achieve.

Architecture-Driven Modernization
This is succinctly explained in the OMG program Architecture-Driven Modernization. In
the white paper Transforming the Enterprise the author describes how transformations,
moving from one system to another, can have three different dimensions:
1) for technical reasons where the underlying IT pieces are moved around but the business
doesnt change (T)echnical Architecture, 2) re-engineering the software architecture (A)
pplication Architecture, through to 3) a full reinvention of the whole organization and
business model (B)usiness Architecture.
Moving to Cloud can actually represent activity on all three fronts:
1. (T) Virtualizing the platform to simply improve the underlying hardware usage
2. (A) Re-architecting apps Re-writing the software to some degree to take
advantage of the Cloud features.
3. (B) Transforming business model - The entire business process can be moved into
the Cloud to harness Crowdsourcing models.
These different levels of scope define the level of transformations possible, and dictate the
strategy, stakeholders and other elements that would be impacted and thus need involved in
the project.
It also helps quantify to the sponsoring executive team what the possible ROI motivations
might be and therefore how best to approach the Cloud and what they might hope to gain
from investments in this area.

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They might have a perception where option #1 is the only benefit when actually the biggest
ROI will come from the larger #3 project, equally they can treat isolated projects simply as
a one off process to deal with the specific technical requirements of one aging platform.

Building a TEI Roadmap for Cloud Computing

Having defined this scope the organization can then also identify the specific means by
which an ROI can be achieved. The framework for planning the Cloud migration business
case can be defined in terms that Forrester Research calls 'Total Economic Impact' (TEI).
For example recently Google commissioned Forrester to identify the TEI of moving from
a legacy email system to Google Apps, polling around 600 mid-sized firms about their
messaging and collaboration plans.
Download the report here: The Google Apps TEI Report, where they describe how
organizations have enjoyed a business improvement including:

Break even within 1.4 months

329% risk-adjusted ROI
A Net Present Value of over $10m following an investment of $400k
With the scope defined by the architecture driven framework, organizations can repeat this
same TEI planning for their migration.

Cloud Migration Journeys

Cloud Migration Journeys help accelerate the successful adoption of Cloud services by
offering pre-packaged engagements for different scenarios, based on an industry developed
common Roadmap.
These Migration Journeys fast-track Cloud adoption through providing specific
configurations of tools and services required for certain scenarios of specific business and
technical needs, and can encompass activities such as:

Auditing your data centre and building inventory lists for migration
Assessing the readiness of your applications to be virtualized
Looking for opportunity areas like increased business continuity through leveraging
VM hosting services
Scanning your storage drives to classify the files for migration to a Cloud store
Development of information security policies that address encryption and
tokenization
Automated auditing of your Microsoft licencing to highlight unnecessary
overspends to build an ROI for migrating to Google Apps
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Free assessment workshop

To help plan their adoption of Cloud computing a
business can undertake a Cloud Readiness
Assessment.
The Cloud Readiness Assessment (CRA) helps
organizations identify which combination of these
scenarios best describe their business needs, and from
there define what projects they take on next to start
towards their goals.
The Cloud Best Practices Network organizes regular workshops for customers to attend for
free to learn more and explore the potential for migrating their systems.
To enquire about availability of workshops in your area, please complete our contact form:
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