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.

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

5. Opportunity
evaluation
Operations and
optimization
Discovery,
analysis,
and planning
Design Migration,
integration and
validation
AWS Migration Process

6. AWS Core Migration Services
 AWS Application Discovery Service
 AWS Server Migration Service
 AWS Database Migration Service
 AWS Import/Export Snowball
 AWS Snowball Edge
 AWS Snowmobile
Asset Discovery/Migration Data Transfer

7. RISC Networks
Jeremy Littlejohn, CEO, RISC Networks

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

9. Use case - Marketing
Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery
(DRaaS)
Security Performance
monitoring & trending
ITSM / CMDB
Applications
Assets
Analytics

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

16. The problem – Too much talking

17. Our goal

18. 5 minute demo

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

27. Q&A