FEATURE : SECURING MULTI-CLOUD
FireScope uses unique persistent observation technology that discovers application dependency changes over time , gathering even unsuspected dependency intelligence critical to successful data centre migrations and reliable ongoing service delivery . Meanwhile , Software Asset Management ( SAM ) can also be used to calculate the software licence requirements , especially since cloud migration provides an opportunity to optimise your IT footprint .
but the main implementation stages are similar for all organisations and industries : define your strategy , make a plan , ready your organisation and adopt the cloud – then govern and manage your environment .
1 . Use of cloud migration software tools
Automated tools , specifically , are designed to remove the complexities of migration and speed up the process .
If your company , like many others , keeps its asset inventory in spreadsheets or non-realtime repositories , your migration will be a disaster . We all know spreadsheets are out of date as soon as you update them , so you cannot be certain they are correct .
Additionally non-realtime discovery tools miss vital assets due to their periodic discovery scans and can produce incomplete snapshots of your business services . You cannot plan a critical migration based on inaccurate data , especially for something as important as cloud migration .
An ESM solution is also an important tool in enabling you to update and modernise your digital workspace , implement your service desk , ticketing , catalogue management , CMDB , among others , providing a single modern solution across all your locations to replace multiple legacy point solutions .
Three key steps for a successful move to the cloud
Once your strategy has been formulated and approved , it is time to proceed to the planning stages of migration . A migration plan must consider all the workloads and business services to be transferred to the cloud and the sequence for migrating them .
Migration plans cover roadmaps , scheduling , project metrics , migration tools and services , and they include a communication plan for organisation leaders , implementers , cloud vendors and – as appropriate – all stakeholders . The latter includes the users who will be affected by the changes resulting from the migration .
2 . Your navigation system in a cloud migration
Step 1 : Discover and map business services accurately
To ensure successful cloud migrations , the targeted application or service must be constantly observed over time to understand behaviour and account for the unknowns that will cause your migration to fail .
With FireScope baseline service maps , Matrix42 provides multilayer transparency into the dependencies that support your critical business services ensuring every asset and dependency is accounted for .
First , it is necessary to clarify the infrastructure and software components involved to determine which applications and services make sense for operation in the cloud . This means identifying service dependencies and taking them into account during migration . For example , a server may be shared by services that are to be migrated as well as services that will remain onpremise . Understanding this is very important so that decisions regarding costs and consolidation can be correctly made , without adding risk .
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