Preparing and execution pilot migration Testing the waters before go all in with a new cloud provider is a good strategy. The pilot migration to the cloud ensures the seamless shift of the operations to cloud services and provide knowledge transfer and learning back to the organization. It is a …

Build target foundation The target foundation should be a configured secure enterprise environment based on best practices, foundation for the enterprise migration journey and an environment that allows for iteration and extension over time. The target foundation comprises of a landing zone. What is a landing zone? According to AWS, …

Application low-level deployment architecture The end state architecture is derived in order to formulate a migration strategy that considers a wide range of constraints, interdependencies, business impact, resource impact, and cost impact. It needs to incorporated thorough risk analysis against all plans and recommendations reviewed with all relevant stakeholders and …

Finalize prioritized backlog of application groups Now that the application and infrastructure is discovered and classified, start thinking about prioritizing them. Other factors start coming into play like e.g. age of hardware and proximity to refresh, systems running at capacity, etc. Ordering of an application migration is dependent on the …

Cloud migration - From on-premise to the cloud! This part describes for defining the migration plan during the planning and discovery phase

Design cloud migration factory A cloud migration factory provides the borders for the execution of the cloud migration strategy and which are moving the application groups to the cloud deployment model at the selected cloud provider. The cloud migration factory allows an organization to set up a cloud ecosystem that …

Discovery application and infrastructure portfolio The setup project controls will be followed by a discovery of the application and infrastructure portfolio, where the defined boundaries will be detailed and criticality identified. It is to ensure optimal knowledge transfer and minimal disruption to the business organization, when conducting the discovery. At …