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5 Cloud Migration Experiences Not to Be Repeated

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Housekeeping

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Our speaker today:

Kellen Amobi

Program Manager, HOSTING

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Migrations to the Cloud

• Costly

• High risk

• Time consuming

• Developing realistic project scopes

• Managing timelines

• Avoiding security risks

• Testing, Testing, Testing

• Communicating expectations

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Mitigating Risk and Avoiding Costly Mistakes

Realistic Scope

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• Allow time for discovery

• Create keep/migrate/remove strategy for each

component

• Break into phases

• What does success look like?

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Developing realistic project scope

Schedule

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Managing Timelines

• Test network speeds to estimate data transfer

• Allow plenty of time for testing/validation

Security Risks

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Avoiding Security Risks

Eighty-six percent of all websites have at least one

serious vulnerability, and most of the time, they contain

more than one, according to WhiteHat Security's “2015

Website Security Statistics Report.”

• Review firewall policy

• Add an intrusion detection system, log manager and/or

web application firewall

• Review compliance requirements

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Avoiding Security Risks

Testing

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• Allow plenty of time for testing and validation

• Client must establish success criteria

• Run test plan at least 3 times – in current environment, in new

environment before cutover, in new environment post-cutover

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Testing, Testing, Testing

Communication

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• Discuss roles and responsibilities

• Who will create/execute test plan?

• Provide access and insight into the original environment

• Approval for maintenance windows

• Communicate with end users for changes/outages

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Communicating Expectations

• Cutover expectations

• specific date/time

• length of window

• allowable downtime

• These factors can change the approach for how to

migrate the data

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Communicating Expectations

• Build in a discovery phase

• Allow lots of time for testing

• Start with a secure environment

• Test 3x

• Share expectations

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Key Takeaways

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Q&A

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