6 Tips For A Successful Migration Program - Enov8

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Tips For A Successful Migration Program
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6 Tips For A Successful Migration Program

• For large enterprises undertaking a migration
  program, it can be a costly and challenging
  exercise.
• With no guarantees that you will arrive at a
  better end state compared to where you started.
• Whether it is uplifting legacy technology assets
  or planning data centre migrations to private or
  public cloud (or a hybrid).

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1. Start With The Problem

• Too often IT is guilty of coming up with a
  solution or technology under pressure of what is
  in vogue or what their peers are doing in the
  market.
• If your IT department is aligned to the business
  needs, then naturally the technology can be
  designed to better effectively support the
  business goals rather than the other way around.
• The goals maybe to better control costs, to
  support business growth (or downsizing), or to
  allow your enterprise applications to be
  accessible by authorised users, securely and
  anywhere.

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2. Virtualise

• If you are late to the party and/or still running
  legacy on bare metal, you will be limited on your
  options for migration and reduce orchestration
  and automation opportunities in this Dev/Ops
  driven world.
• Data migration management from legacy can be a
  challenge, but is can be overcome by splitting
  the client piece and the back end.

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3. Where Are We Now?

• It may seem crazy, but most medium to large
  organisations struggle to understand exactly what
  their IT environment currently looks like.
• Pick a server at random and ask the SME what
  team/project is using that and why and you may
  get a blank stare.
• Knowledge is often maintained in spreadsheets and
  emails and often only true as of a point in time.

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4. Where Are We Going?

• Armed with knowledge of where you currently are,
  you can begin to plan a future state based on
  your business goals.
• This may lead to an end state of hybrid public
  and private cloud. With the vision in place you
  can now start to slice the migration into sprints
  of activity.
• A migration program is a great opportunity to
  identify and permanently decommission unused/idle
  systems and start reducing your future OPEX.

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5. Orchestrate And Automate

• Each critical manual step to decommission and
  spin up a new server should be a target for
  automation.
• Each of these sprints of activity will feed
  lessons learned and areas for automation to be
  included in the next sprint.
• The theory being that once you get to migrating
  the critical production instance, you have a
  tried and tested repeatable set of steps which
  are automated to minimize human error.

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6. Align Technology Costs With The Business

• A migration is a great opportunity to start fresh
  and begin understanding exactly who is using what
  and understanding the associated cost with
  providing the service.
• Most reasonable business units will not object to
  paying for the things they use, after all, if you
  have gotten the first point correct and aligned
  IT to the business need, then more IT cost will
  equate to the business doing well.
• This helps minimise waste improving the value as
  well as acting as a permanent sanity check on
  whether IT is aligned to the business.

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