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Best practices for migrating IT to the Cloud

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Problem StatementCloud 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 downThese 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 ManagementCloud 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, Cloud Migration Management CloudBestPractices.net 2

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 ROIFor 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 ModernizationThis 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 usage2. (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.


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 ComputingHaving 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 JourneysCloud 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


Free assessment workshopTo 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: http://CloudBestPractices.net/Contact


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