2. MIGRATING YOUR EXISTING APPLICATIONS
• Choosing a migration strategy entails that a business chooses the one that
will give the business freedom of choice in programming languages and
models that they are familiar with.
• With cloud businesses and IT can craft value together, share focus and goals
and new business models and improve innovation
3. A FEW POINTERS WE DISCUSS
• A phased cloud migration strategy
• Impact on existing technologies
• People
• Finance
• Legal issues
• risks
4. A PHASED CLOUD MIGRATION STRATEGY
• Phase 1 : Cloud assessment
Identify gaps between your current traditional legacy architecture and
next generation cloud architecture while assessing costs, architecture
and security.
• Phase 2 : Proof of concept
Build confidence with various providers.
• Phase 3 : Data migration
Leverage different storage options
5. A PHASE CLOUD STRATEGY
(CONTINUED….)
• Phase 4 : Application migration
Hybrid migration strategy
Incorporates private and public cloud allowing easy solution
creation that better fit the computing requirements and long
term goals.
• Phase 5 : Optimization
• Allows for better utilization, efficiency and performance. Better
visibility through advanced monitoring and telemetry.
6. IMPACT ON EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES
• Complete remote development and application
• Large-scale distributed
• Virtualisation and technical specification
• Automation and user acceptance
• Business alignment
7. PEOPLE
• Employees are more focused
• Also respond timely to business needs
• Improvement in learning curve in every one in the organization
• Enhance productivity
• Reduce admin function
9. LEGAL ISSUES
• Third party involvement
• Initial due diligence
• Contractual issues
Privacy laws in South Africa -
Data protection
Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI)
10. RISKS
• Step 1 - Identify the assets
IAAS, PAAS, SAAS
• Step 2 - Analyse the risks
Questions to ask:
How safe is my data in the cloud and at the provider?
Is my data kept private in the cloud and at the provider?
Can other clients of the provider access my data?
11. RISKS (CONTINUED….)
How does all this affect my compliance requirements?
What if there is a security breach involving my data?
Is my data backed up and retained for enough time?
• Step 3 - Apply security countermeasures
• Step 4 - Conduct post-run or -event evaluations
12. MOVE TO THE CLOUD
• No obsolescence! Your cloud platform is constantly up to date
and using the latest in technology.
• Migration timeline more or less than 6 months tops!
• Utility base is high for hybrid strategy because it constitutes
the data that can be accessed easily and uses a mix of on-
premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services
with orchestration between the two platforms.
You never need to buy a server again!