converting data centers to cloud services
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Agenda
Key Drivers Assumption Planning Questions Gotchas
Data Center Migration to the Cloud – Key Drivers Key Requirements
Driver An organization’s current data center
can no longer support the need for growth in terms of current space, power and cooling.
An organization’s current data center has too many single points of failure and the risk of outages,
An organization is restructuring due to a merger or acquisition, creating a need to separate and/or consolidate data centers.
An organization faces the sale of a building, rental fees, or increases in co-location costs
Key Strategic Drivers Reducing capital
expenditure Lower Ongoing Costs
(operational & Procurement)
Improve Scalability & Elasticity
Improve Time-to-Market Focus on Core Business Security and Compliance
Assumptions:
The basic premise is that cloud providers can do a better job of running a huge number of servers and storage boxes efficiently at multiple data centers, than a media company—or almost any other kind company, actually
Rely on the cloud for all of our scalable computing and storage needs—our business logic, distributed databases and big data processing/analytics, recommendations, transcoding, and hundreds of other functions that make up the XXX application is still ours to protect and run
Reduction of IT Operation staff – cost savings This will save us on carbon footprint Our cost to Lease space is equal or lower than it is to run
Successful migrations often start with a data center plan that almost overlooks the fact that this new data center will be cloud-basedKey questions to consider during this phase include the following: What networking space do I want to occupy? How much bandwidth will I need? How do I want to restrict access to my cloud? How do I segment resources- (subnets, Cloud billing codes, DHCP blocks)? Do I need or want multiple data centers for High availability or Disaster
Recovery? What security rules do I need in place and where? (What grouping, server,
subnet, application) How and where do I want my application to Scale? How do I want my data tier designed? One server per DB? One large DB Cluster
for all Databases
What are the Main Gotcha?
Main things to understand Not understanding workloads Not understanding licensing Ignoring Platform as a Service (PAAS) Migration on an Island
Final Statement
The cloud can offer an excellent choice for expanding, supporting, or even replacing your traditional data centers.When executed with a well-conceived plan, moving a data center into the cloud can help you realize immediate benefits, including the following: Technology and Procurement cycles changed and need to be
understood How will you address your Business Continuity Planning (BCP, DR, HA) Scale hardware based on volumes – Know your business and watch
your bills – If you have application or data shrinks or grows when do you see this on your bill?
Need help and planning Consolidation, Migration, RelocationsContact
Mark SchwedelSFIVE Consulting
sfiveconsulting @outlook.com