Cloud migrations are hardly one size fits all. It can be challenging to migrate from a large-scale data center to an optimized AWS environment without draining IT resources. By leveraging CSC, organizations are able to determine exactly what they need from their IT infrastructure and efficiently migrate to a customized cloud environment on AWS that meets those needs. With 400+ AWS certified architects and 30+ experts with AWS professional-level certification, CSC helps organizations experience seamless, results-oriented migrations. Register for the upcoming webinar to hear speakers from CSC and AWS discuss the ins and outs of a successful large-scale migration to AWS.
Join us to learn:
How CSC helped a large federal systems integration company migrate their workloads to the AWS Cloud in less than three months
How CSC has facilitated customers split from their shared IT environment in less than 3 months
The step-by-step process of an efficient data center migration
Who Should Attend:
IT Manager, IT Security Manager, Solution Architect, Cloud App Architect, System Administrator, IT Project Manager, Product Manager, Business Development
3. What Sets AWS apart?
Building and managing cloud since 2006
70+ services to support any cloud workload
History of rapid, customer-driven releases
16 regions, 42 availability zones, 68 edge locations
51 proactive price reductions to date
Thousands of partners; 2,700+ Marketplace products
Experience
Service Breadth & Depth
Pace of Innovation
Global Footprint
Pricing Philosophy
Ecosystem
4. Challenges 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?
5. 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:
6. 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
10. Large-scale Cloud Migration Drivers
Top 5 Leading Cloud Adoption
Drivers:
Cost Control
Agility
Time-to-Market
Efficiency
Productivity
Cloud Promise land
Enterprise
Clients
Compelling Business Event
Theme 1: “Have to Go”
Rapid Data Center move or
Decommissioning
Depreciation of Capital
End of Services Terms
or Leases
Clear ROI
Theme 2: “Need to Go”
Less defined Business Case Less defined ROI
Strategic Imperative Industry Trend
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt and Resistance
Top 5 Cloud Business Cases:
Flexible ‘pay as you go’ pricing
Easy and Fasts Deployment
Encourage Standardization
Requires Few Staff
Decrease Capex & Opex Expense Run
Rate (Economies of Scale Benefit)
11. Timelines
Business needs are a major factor in defining migration timelines
and treatments
Short Mid Range Longer Term
<3
months
3-12
months
1-3
years
Note: Timelines can dictate treatments
12. What is a Large-scale Migration?
Aggressive
migration timeline
Large number
of participants
Thousands of servers
Combination of the above
13. Application Migration Challenges
Large migrations greatly amplify these challenges…....
Lack of accurate discovery tools and processes
Lack of application contexts / information
Limited CMDB or similar data sources
Inaccurate on premise costs
Lack of detail and scope with respect to
operating model, governance, risk, compliance,
security, software licensing, etc.
Potential operational practice maturity gaps Increased cost | Longer time to value | Inaction
14. Additional Large Migration Challenges
Large migrations face these additional challenges…....
Efficient coordination and communications across
a large team made up of business, application,
development, operations and partner participants
Discovering, transforming, and deploying
complex sets of workload components
Demand for automated management
of AWS infrastructure and applications
Insufficient WAN bandwidth to support ongoing
operations + parallel server and data migrations
15. Small to Medium Migration
Small to Medium migrations have the following characteristics…....
Area Characteristic
Program & Project Management Can get by with PMs managing activities with MS Project & Spreadsheets
Can successfully leverage email and status calls to collect verbal updates, and report on status
Infrastructure Provisioning &
Workload Migration Can get buy with manual AWS infrastructure provisioning and workload migration
Team Size
Small to medium IT team with possibly some business stakeholders
Team Skills Combination of IT & Business staff that manage and execute the migration. May use
contractors/partners to assist
Level of project scope & visibility
Smaller IT Project or major business initiative in a smaller company
16. Large Migration
Large migrations have the following characteristics…....
Area Characteristic
Program & Project Management
Requires automated workflow and tracking for technical as well as program level visibility
Infrastructure Provisioning &
Workload Migration Requires automation of AWS infrastructure provisioning and workload migration
Team Size
10s to 100s of staff performing coordinated/sequenced activities
Team Skills Combination of IT & Business staff that have the context and AWS and/or Partner staff that
have the specific SME skills to drive down risk & optimize every aspect of the migration
Level of project scope & visibility
Typically Tier 1 Business initiatives tied to strategic business goals/outcomes
20. Agentless, converts
VMDK into AWS
recognizable format
Import into AWS
through API
Workload Migration Playbook Variations
A number of factors drive the specific activities required for each
individual workload migration…..
Application (infrastructure) Migration Option Choices
VM Conversion
Agent on source
system cloning
OS image
Snapshotting
source image
of target system
Typically one time
migration
Host Cloning
Agent on source
monitor source app
Containerize
application
Redeploy on
provisioned
target system
App Containerization
Agent based data
replication of
source system
at file system or
boot level
Continuously
replicating into
target volumes
Live Migration
Agent on source
system / device
on-premises
One time
synchronization
to S3 and
differential updates
Data (selectively)
pushed into
target system
Data Migration
21. Discovery & Automated Migration Tools
Database
Migration Service
Application Component &
Dependency Discovery
Production environment, LIVE
migration with minimum downtime
Non-supported OS
Windows 2003,
in-place upgrade and migration
Database migrations Non-Prod / Non-critical migrations
Build from SoE AMI
or VM Import/Export
Partner tools are critical to optimize migrations & reducing risk…
22. AWS Global Partner Status
AWS North America region
AWS Asia-Pacific region
AWS Europe, Middle East, Africa
region
CSC Certifications/Partner Status with AWS
AWS Competencies and Programs
Big data, Migration, SAP (via UXC
Oxygen)
Authorized Government Reseller,
AWS Channel Reseller, AWS
China Region Partner, AWS
Government Partner Program,
AWS Managed Service Program,
AWS Test Drive Partner, AWS
Audited Managed Service Provider
Global Certifications
AWS Accreditations: 7,500+
AWS Associate Certifications:
500+
AWS Professional Certifications:
45
23. Analytics as a Service for AWS
This industrialized, fully managed environment collects and analyzes a wide variety of
data sources at volume.
Hosting BDPaaS on Aws provides instant scalability, ease of use and rapid
application development.
Obtain data to make informed decisions about optimizing your business through a big
data toolset.
Cloud Migration Services for AWS
Accelerated automated migration services to AWS including application, data, and OS
migration services.
This managed suite of services enables rapid migration of cloud-ready workloads into
AWS. Combine this with Cloud Services for AWS to migrate and manage your
Infrastructure and application real estate.
Powered by RISC Networks and Racemi.
CSC AWS Portfolio
Architect ConnectManage
Insight
Secure
Migrate
Application Modernization
for AWS
CSC’s application modernization
capabilities range from refactoring and
COTS re-platforming to full conversion
and rebuilding of the application with
AWS in mind.
Benefits include better utilization,
performance, developer productivity,
and innovation using the full AWS
ecosystem.
Security Services for AWS
CSC Global Risk center includes tools
and automation to secure your AWS
environment and workloads.
We leverage several partners in
supporting this highly integrated service
with our CSC Services for AWS to
provide comprehensive management
and security for your AWS environment.
Cloud Services for AWS
CSC combines cloud-native monitoring
and management tools from our Cloud
Services for AWS with monitoring and
management capabilities of our CSC
Global Risk management Center.
CSC works closely with our partners
(CloudPassage, McAfee, AppDynamics,
Puppet, Chef, CloudCheckr) to provide
an interoperable suite of tools for 24x7
support.
Cloud Network Service
for AWS
Our unique, fully integrated software
platform, the CSC Agility Platform
provides policy-based governance and
control over applications and services.
CSC’s partnership with AT&T NetBond
services provides on-demand, secure
AWS Direct Connect for clients to
extend their corporate network directly
to the AWS cloud.
24. Solutions & Services
Cloud Services
Customer
Journey
How CSC Guides Customers On Their Journey to
the Cloud
Work flow
Advise Plan Migrate Verify
Manage &
Optimize
Cloud Products
Advisory
Cloud
Ready
Assessment
Cloud
Consultancy
Discovery
Asset Discovery
Application Discovery
Inter-Server
Relationships
Move Group
Identification
Performance
App Requirements Peak Avg.
Compare Cloud Behaviors
Target Cloud QoS Profiling
Target Cloud Real Testing
Critical Component Identification
Resource Utilization Platform Right
Sizing
Compare Target Cloud Costs
Migration
Clone / Re-hosting
Clone+Import Agility
Build from Scratch in
Agility
Upgrade & Modernize
Live Migration
Minimum Downtime
Optimize
QoS
SLA Monitoring
Patching
Cost Optimization
Customer BU
Cost Allocation
Reporting
25. CSC Cloud Migration Services for AWS
Discovery
Discover legacy, virtualized
or cloud-ready real estate
through RISC Networks
software. Analyze and support
creation of waves for end-to-end
discovery of Windows, Linux
and other platforms ready to
move to AWS.
Migration
Racemi automated software
migration solution supports
moving workloads automatically
to AWS. Create waves of
migrations to lift+shift, re-
platform or re-engineer as
needed to accelerate time to
realizing the benefit of AWS.
Cost Savings
Reduce overall capital
expenses by transitioning to
a leased infrastructure model.
Automated discovery and
migration capability with RISC
Networks and Racemi support
accelerated automated process
for on boarding new workloads
into AWS quickly.
Customer Engagement
Get out of legacy data centers
and start rapidly developing new
applications and services after
migrating to AWS through CSC
cloud migration services.
26. Optimize Application Landscape to take advantage of the cloud economics.
Remediate Cloud anti-patterns through re-platforming and optimizing applications for
cloud scaling and leasing capabilities
Reduce TCO by 20-30% through application portfolio stratification and analysis
Accelerate time to market with new applications and services with AWS application
development methodology
Develop new AWS-centric modern applications and platforms with CSC specialists;
mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), and other user-experience driven applications for
dynamic delivery of new function and service
Classify, Re-platform or re-imagine, modernize Application Solutions
CSC Application Modernization on AWS
27. Innovative
software is
transforming
entire industries
Too many
organizations
are being held
back by old
software
APIs help
break out
locked apps,
improving
access to
information
Modern apps
help
“consumerize”
existing
technology
Digital Application Experiences
Release Full Business Potential
Digital
Application
Experiences
Deliver increased flexibility
and responsiveness, while
controlling costs
Digital Application
Experiences
Modern applications
with API “wrappers”
can empower
organizations
25%
25% of software budgets will be spent
on mobile applications by 2017
– IDC
CSC Application Modernization on AWS
28. Current Method of
Assessment and Analysis
The process of analysis is
manual, time consuming and
provides little benefit to the
organizations they are
servicing
Most organizations that we
speak to are going through a
manual process of conducting
interviews with their team and
collecting data manually
This process can take months
to years in some cases, which
means that decisions are
delayed by months, potentially
years
Our analytics deliver a great
starting point by automatically
collecting data in as little as
two - four weeks. It drastically
improves the overall process
Interviews, Manual
Assessment
Decisions Are Delayed Our Process
Faster, Easier and More Effective Discovery
Powered by
29. Discover
Understand connectivity, what
application servers exist. Reduces
potential risk for the organization
Capabilities that Deliver Results
Powered by
Visualize
ACV technology helps organizations
organize and provide clarity of the
entire IT estate
Performance
Identify performance characteristics,
connectivity, dependencies
30. Cloud
Physical
Virtual
Storage
Network
Visual tools
Apps
ConfigOS
Data
Capture DeployCreate Synchronize
Live capture – No server
downtime
Data compression/encryption
Firewall friendly
CPU/network sensitive
Dynamic memory mode
Environment Checks
Windows / Linux
Automated image conversion
Remove old drivers & tools
Inject drivers, tools &
software
Customizable
transformations
AWS advanced optimizations
Hybrid file/block sync
Real-time monitoring or file
scan
Only changed blocks
replicated
Firewall friendly
Automated or configurable
Customer provisions server
Deploy agent (DPAD)
Powered by
How Live Migrations Work
31. Automating Transformation Components
Injects files and settings into image on the fly
– Virtual tools
– Cloud drivers/tools
– Management tools
– Patches
– Misc Applications
Execute scripts
– Attach to load balancer
– Remove files/applications
– Update DNS servers
Install partner agents
Powered by
33. Large-scale Migration – Agile Project Management
Agile Methodology
Different treatments = different teams
Migration sprints
Automation in Project Management – A system
with the following capabilities:
– Central Knowledge Portal
– Automated Workload Migration Playbook
– Real-time Program Dashboard
– Central Asset Management
JIRA is commonly used, but other tools can work
35. May 19, 2015, CSC announced that its Board of Directors had unanimously approved a
plan to separate the company into two publically traded, pure play leaders: one to serve
commercial and government clients and one to serve public sector clients in the U.S.
Our Challenge
Business Application Portfolios
200+ Apps must migrate
by 10/1/2015
Approximately: 250 Servers (Physical and Virtual) | 3 TB Memory | 1300 processors
Program Specific
Data Centers
2 Data Centers
1 Gov CSP
SaaS Providers
Large Federal
Systems
Integration
Company with
14,000 Employees
Infrastructure Types:
Physical
Virtual
Private Cloud
SaaS
Data Centers
14+ Data Centers
SaaS Providers
Applications Types:
Collaboration
Finance
HR
Payroll
Security
Other…
70,000 Employees
36. We need a strong systems integrator with proven applications migration
processes to discover, plan and execute our application separation between the
two separate companies.
How Do We Attack This Problem?
Application Discovery Operations OnboardingApplication Affinity Grouping
Migration Execution
Cloud Adoption Assessment
Target Assessment &
Architecture
Application Treatments
Migration ValidationOperations Planning
Continuous Improvement
Migration
Process
37. Migration - Shape
Cloud Adoption Assessment
Suitability Scorecard
Tells you the ideal level at which you should be looking for a cloud-
based alternative: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS.
Cloud Adoption Roadmap
Identifies treatments and prioritization based on customer
requirements and target environment
Our Targets: Physical Data Center, Private Cloud, AWS Gov
Cloud, SaaS Providers
App Inventory
App Data Flow
Diagram
CSGov
Only
49%
CSC/CSGov
Shared
40%
CSC Only
11%
Application Discovery
38. Migration - Transform
Not Migrate
24%
Physical
(NPS Data
Center)
51%
Gov Cloud
15%
SaaS
10%
Treatment
Do not migrate
Application exists at a location/data center that will
remain, no need to migrate at this time
Physical move
Ship physical architecture with applications installed to
consolidated data center
Migrate to AWS GovCloud
Initiate an application migration to AWS GovCloud, via
cloning, cloning & import/export, rebuilding, or rebuilding
with import/export
Migrate to a large federal systems integration
company instance of SaaS
A large federal systems integration company is sharing a
SaaS implementation with CSC, need to work with the
SaaS providers to create a CSGov dedicated instance
and initiate a data migration and purge.
Application TreatmentsApplication Affinity Grouping
39. Physical Data Center
Migration - Transform (continued)
Migration Execution
AWS Gov Cloud SaaS Providers
1. Data Center Preparation
(Space, Power, Network,
Staffing)
2. Application Outage
Planning
3. Onsite Installation
4. Configuration
5. Base Testing
1. Partnership with Racemi
2. Move Group Planning
3. Discover, Capture, Clone,
Configure
4. AWS Import/Export
5. Some Straight Rebuild
1. Partnership with SaaS
providers
2. Professional Services
3. SaaS Statement of Work
4. Configuration
Migration/Establishment
5. Base Testing
40. Source Server
(Physical,
Virtual,
or Cloud)
Cloud Infrastructure
Image
Step 3: Configure
Image Payload
For Target Cloud
Step 1: Spin Up
New Cloud Instance
Step 2: Auto-Install
The Racemi Agent Step 4: Deploy
Image
DynaCenter Console
Live Capture
Applications
Configuratio
n
Operating
System
Image
Library
Release Planning
Re-use Existing
Regression Testing
Manual Test Script
Execution
User Acceptance
Testing
Go/No Go Decision
Go Live Support
Period
Migration – Transform (continued)
Migration Validation
Team used Agile methodologies to deliver the migration execution (scrum planning, kanban
execution)
41. Operations Onboarding
Migration - Manage
Integrated Technology Center (ITC)
Integration:
1. CSC Answers (HR Help Desk)
2. CSC Technical Help Desk
3. Network Operations & Security Center (NOSC)
Application O&M Teams
1. Parallel O&M for a period of time to support rollback
2. Outage Management
3. Triage
4. Scrumban teams
5. DevOps
Physical to Cloud/Virtual
Keep moving to the cloud!
Stateless Architectures
High Availability
Cloud Service Rich
Hybrid – VM/Container/SaaS Architectures
Offering Enhancements
Continuous Improvement
42. Success Stories
Hybrid environment (Compute, Network,
Storage) on Physical Premise, Dedicated
Private Cloud, Government Community Cloud,
SaaS Provider, all seamless to the end
user…. and it works!
Use of AWS, rapidly increased the time to
value for our cloud-based IaaS (compute,
network and storage). Able to execute plan in
hours/days versus weeks/months it would
have taken using alternative IaaS with same
requirements
Agile methodology, delivered value early,
identified issues and mitigated them rapidly.
CSC used it’s own processes and methods
to take on this aggressive application migration
effort—and they worked. Lessons will improve
these migration offerings passing on value to
our customers
DR recovery point time reduced from days
to minutes with some of these applications.
Architected for resiliency to failures
43. Success Story: Large Insurance Company
Transition digital apps teams to
AWS cloud operating model with
security and governance
Offload and migrate workloads
and applications from competitor
data center to AWS, CSC
BizCloud, and Oracle
SuperClusters,
managed by CSC
Provide self-service access to
applications and services for
insurance company users through
cloud service provider model and
broker across multiple cloud
solutions
Challenge
CSC Agility Platform enabling
cloud security, brokering, and
governance across AWS, CSC
BizCloud, and Oracle
SuperClusters
Implemented digital apps
modernization scheme to roll out
application services and
accelerate releases with AWS
native tools and
operating model
Shift capital risk; shift to OPEX
and PayU models
Solution
Rapid and radical cost savings
achieved
Avoided vendor lock-in and price
gauging by adopting true hybrid
cloud strategy where work is
placed based on cost efficiencies
Rebalanced application and
project level budgets to optimize
for infrastructure cost platform
Results
44. CSC Helps Global Testing Giant Improve Response
Time and Availability
Client: One of the world’s largest providers of educational testing and assessment services
Results
Internet-based testing platform available
globally in three regions
Improved response times by making
testing application available closer to test
centers and takers
Improved availability by deploying in
multiple availability zones and multiple
regions
Improved costs for multiregional
deployments through the ability to set up
and tear down regional deployments to
pay for infrastructure only during
scheduled testing, reducing overall
investment in test platform
Challenge
Provide faster and more consistent
response time for Internet-based test
administration across the globe
Improve availability for Internet-based
test administration
Control costs for testing by moving to a
utility-based model for test administration
Solution
Enterprise Managed Infrastructure,
including full cybersecurity and
application performance management
Implement infrastructure as code to
enable standup and tear-down of
supported infrastructure automatically
and within hours in additional regions
(EU, Asia-Pacific)
Technologies included EC2, Racemi,
CloudFormation, CloudFront, Puppet,
CloudPassage and AppDynamics
Success Story
45. Lessons Learned
No magic bullet for an enterprise
migration
Plan for bandwidth. Biggest bottleneck in an
automated migration/cloning to cloud is
bandwidth. Plan ahead, expect delays for
bandwidth restrictions/issues.
Do not disregard the importance of planning,
especially the target environment planning.
Much harder to move migrated resources due to
poor VPC/Target network planning.
Automation can not migrate everything,
expect some traditional migration methods
to be required.
No Re-IP’ing is a great goal, but not entirely
possible in a large scale migration.
Most importantly… utilize your partner
expertise, heed their advice (AWS, Racemi,
SaaS Partners, etc.)
46. Migration as part of larger IT Transformation
framework
Migration automation, focus on business processes
and functions not servers
Leveraging AWS ecosystem – APN Technology
Partners, CSC’s AWS Center of Excellence, CSC’s
Global AWS Practice Solution Architects, and AWS
Professional Services – to reduce risk and optimize
activities and business outcomes
Key Takeaways
47. Q & A
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