This document discusses overcoming barriers to cloud migration with AWS and APN partners. It provides examples of how customers have benefited from migrating to AWS, including increased scale, security, cost effectiveness and performance. It then outlines common barriers to cloud adoption like existing investments and upfront costs. RISC Networks is presented as a partner that can help determine migration strategy, reduce timeline and risks, and keep teams focused on innovation through complete application analysis. The AWS migration process and core services are described, and RISC Networks is highlighted for its CloudScape software that provides application discovery, analytics and intelligence to inform migration plans. A case study of Turner Broadcasting's migration to AWS with assistance from RISC Networks is also presented.
Simplify Cloud Migration to AWS with RISC Network’s Complete App Analysis
1. Simplify Migration with RISC Network’s
Complete App Analysis
Carmen Puccio, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Jeremy Littlejohn, CEO, RISC Networks
Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture, Turner Broadcasting
2. Benefits of AWS Migration
Scale
Consumes 40%
of US internet
bandwidth at
peak hours
Security
Believes they can be
more secure on AWS
than in any private
data center
Cost-Effectiveness
Has reduced total
cost of IT ownership
by 52%
High-Performance
Has reduced
latency by more
than 90%
What are customers achieving with the AWS platform?
3. Barriers to Cloud adoption
Existing Investments Skeptical Stakeholders Upfront Costs
Application Interdependencies Fear of downtime during migration Lack of Cloud Expertise
Even if you’re ready to adopt, some real barriers make migrating
quickly and cost-effectively a challenge:
4. Overcome these barriers with AWS and APN Partners
APN Migration partners can help you:
Determine your migration
strategy
Get a clearer roadmap to
achieving your desired
end-state
Reduce project timeline,
cost, and risk
Keep your people
focused on business
innovation
8. If I don’t know what I have, and I can’t ask good questions about my
IT infrastructure, how can I take advantage of these solutions?
Use case - Marketing
Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery
(DRaaS)
Security Performance
monitoring & trending
ITSM / CMDB
10. What does CloudScape do?
Add
Intelligence
to the Data
Act on your
Intelligence
Collect Data
Consume
Intelligence
11. What does CloudScape do?
Add Intelligence to the Data
Automated Application Stack
Grouping / Discovery
Application Rationalization
Client Consumption by Location
Advanced Visualization
Cloud Pricing
Act on your Intelligence
SI Focus
Migration with Racemi /
Rivermeadow / CloudEndure / etc.
Collect Data
Agentless Collection
Single Virtual Appliance collection point
Massive Scale with little impact
Windows, Linux, Unix, VMware
Consume Intelligence
Interactive Analytics
Self Help Reporting Modules
12. Discovery + Analytics
What problems exist in my environment?
How should I migrate to cloud?
What’s low hanging fruit for optimization?
What should I consider for disaster
recovery?
What is the business case for change?
What devices exist in my environment?
What applications do I have?
How are my applications integrated?
What is my resource utilization?
What is my most important application?
Where are devices and applications
located?
What are my bandwidth requirements?
13. CloudScape migration story: Public or private cloud
Foundational
Use Case Specific
I am interested in cloud
but I don’t know what/how
to execute
I need to understand
what I have
I need to organize this
information by application
Then I want to monitor
and track the changes
of that application in
the cloud
Then I want to migrate
my application to that
environment
Then I want an easy
way to set up that
cloud environment
Then I want to classify
my applications to see
what is easy/hard to
move and why
Then I want to look at
pricing & other
factors around cloud
providers to choose
my destination
14. Collect Data with Scalable
Virtual Appliance
Scales to Infinite Subnets
VMware Performance and Inventory
(vSphere API)
Network Infrastructure Performance
and Inventory (SNMP Read Only)
Linux/Unix Performance and
Inventory (SNMP Read Only or SSH)
Microsoft Windows Performance and
Inventory (WMI Used)
Traffic Simulation (Opt in only)
Traffic Capture (Socket & Flow based)
Secure
Web Service**
**On-Premise Data Storage and Analytics Also Available
Analytics Layer
Comparative Analytics across
9,500+ Customers
Multiple Filed Patents
Architecture - Security
On-Customer Premise
Solve Client Problems
Migrate Data Centers / Cloud
Simulate App Traffic in the
cloud
Have meaningful, data driven
conversations with your
customer
Interactive Reporting
Collaboration Platform
15. Network Equipment WindowsServers Linux / Unix Servers
(via SNMP)
VMwareInfrastructure
Inventory – Hardware / Software / Operational Information
Performance - Hardware Information
RISC Networks data dictionary
19. Case Study: Turner Broadcasting
Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture, Turner Broadcasting
20. Global media company, a division of Time Warner
Owns and operates various television networks
including CNN, TBS, HLN, TNT, TruTV, and
Bleacher Report
Founded in 1970 and eventually merged
with Time Warner to operate as a semi-
independent division
About Turner Broadcasting System
21. In the process of transforming their
business to support digital distribution
and consumption of content
The challenge
Was looking to focus on their core
business transformation instead of
maintaining their on-premises
infrastructure
Needed to break organizational
barriers that existed in their
on-premises environment
22. “Turner decided it didn’t need to be in the
datacenter business in order to be
successful”
– Don Browning
VP of Cloud Architecture for Turner Broadcasting System
The challenge
23. Looking for a flexible and
scalable environment
that would grow along
with their business
Why Turner chose AWS
Wanted to learn from
other organizations that
had completed similar
migrations to AWS
Did not feel other cloud
providers had the breadth
and scale that AWS had to
offer
AWS would allow Turner
to gain business agility
while reducing the man
hours and costs to run
their on-premises data
centers
24. Turner tried to formulate a migration plan but did not
know enough about their existing infrastructure to do so
RISC was recommended after Turner raised concerns
to AWS about not fully understanding their IT
environment
Turner realized RISC was critical in creating an
actionable plan for the AWS migration and realized the
benefits immediately
Why Turner chose RISC Networks
25. The process
RISC conducted a complete scan of Turner’s IT environment
The scan allowed Turner to validate the dependencies
between applications
Turner created two buckets of resources to migrate: cloud
ready and not cloud ready
Turner conducted a pilot-mode migration for the cloud ready
applications
After a successful pilot migration, Turner received the green
light to begin the migration process in July 2016
26. Able to construct an effective
migration plan complete with list
of applications and their
dependencies
Benefits of RISC Networks
Discovered almost 1,000 servers
they were running that were not
being used and shut them down
immediately (some within 10
minutes of the scan)
Able to analyze their sub-divisions
and breakdown the entire
migration process into smaller
parts