Hybrid cloud migration requires consideration given to people and process as well as technology. That’s why having a very clear idea of the plans and aims in moving to hybrid cloud are important, and that these goals are discussed with IT teams at all levels (application, storage, network, system, etc.), as building their knowledge into the preparations will prove invaluable. With this in mind, here are six tips for balancing the technology requirements with the all important people and process element when migrating to a hybrid cloud environment.

2. Hybrid cloud migration requires consideration given to
people and process as well as technology. That’s why
having a very clear idea of the plans and aims in
moving to hybrid cloud are important, and that these
goals are discussed with IT teams at all levels
(application, storage, network, system, etc.), as building
their knowledge into the preparations will prove
invaluable.
With this in mind, here are six tips for balancing the
technology requirements with the all important people
and process element when migrating to a hybrid cloud
environment.

3. • Tier, tier, tier
One of the biggest issues for hybrid cloud integration is where
applications need to run. If you ask the business how important
their application is they will almost certainly want it on a tier one
infrastructure – however the reality is that applications can be
tiered depending on their critical to the business, commercial
differentiation/competitive advantage, and performance
required.

4. • Benchmark
SaaS offers great benefits but can also add load to the
infrastructure and network. Benchmark before and after testing
Saas in a development environment to see if it performs as
promised or if it will need new faster hardware/networking to
achieve this.

5. • Conscript a specialist, but prepare first
Before approaching a third party for help with your
migration, you should be equipped with the knowledge of
what you have and what you want to achieve. Knowing
how your applications are performing and what you want
as a guarantee before you approach a third party will
stand you in good stead. Third parties will rarely offer an
application performance SLA, just availability – yet
performance is what you are buying, coupled with
availability and security.
For this the third party needs an Infrastructure Performance
Management platform so they can guarantee outsourced
application performance in a shared environment. You wouldn’t
lease a car only knowing it was going to be available to you but
with no idea if it was secure or how it was going to perform.

6. Design with the Internet of Things in mind
The Internet of Things is all connected to a physical
infrastructure so they need to ensure that infrastructure is
performing. Like all applications they perform down to the
slowest component. It is critical to ensure the servers,
switches, network and storage are all performing as you
would expect under load before you design the API’s for
the Internet of Things to connect to.

7. Know your traffic flow
It is critical to know what the incoming traffic is. With
unstructured streaming you can’t expect a structured
infrastructure to cope unless it is massively over-provisioned,
and the reason you are considering Cloud is to avoid over –
provisioning costs.

8. Give your team intelligence
IT teams must know how the infrastructure is performing,
end-to-end, in real time, across all elements. You can no
longer just manage the storage or the server and leave
the rest to someone else to worry about. Cloud is about
efficiency and cost savings so the IT team needs to
monitor the whole infrastructure and be able to react
quickly to change.
IT teams need to have a clear understanding of exactly
what is going on within the infrastructure, and given the
highly complex nature of data center environments with
visualization is more critical than ever before. The days of
over-provisioning to guarantee application performance and
each manager/department/supplier, blaming each other when
there is a latency issue or outage are gone.

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