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The issue of cloud migration and cloud operations is tricky. There
are numerous questions that arise from the idea of moving to the
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cloud. We have addressed some of these questions here and hope
24 May - Will The Music
that this paper will help you better understand the issues Industry Embrace Voice-
surrounding cloud computing. Controlled Technology?
1.2. Is it for everyone, or are there any companies that are better Media &
with an in-house system? Entertainment
1.3. What should we do in advance? Are there any typical Microsoft mobile
mistakes that we should watch for? Music outsourcing PCI
2. Technical issues DSS QAsecurity Security
2.1. How do we plan the migration? How should we organize the
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entire process to make it efficient and painless? Networks Streaming
2.2. How do we select a proper migration strategy? Can we just technology
‘lift and shift’ our apps, or should we transform the entire travel Travel &
architecture? Hospitality Usability
2.3. Our system is huge. How do we transfer our data to avoid Video wearable wearables
high network costs, long transfer times and security concerns?
2.4. Our service processes multiple transactions per second.
How do we move it to the cloud and ensure we don’t lose any
transactions?
2.5. Should we transfer the entire system or are there parts
better left out of cloud?
2.6. Which particular technologies could you recommend?
2.7. Should we use any cloud-specific SaaS- or PaaS-
components to replace parts of the legacy systems?
2.8. Should we ‘buy’ instead of ‘build’ (i.e., replace legacy
components or entire solutions with servers on the market)?
3. Financials
3.1. How do we measure financial gains? (Also, ‘cheaper or
not?’)
3.2. What are possible cost optimization options?
3.3. What are the hidden costs of the cloud and how can we
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avoid them
5. About DataArt
1. Introduction
1.1. What are the advantages of moving to the
cloud?
Operational costs. No need to pay for the equipment,
maintenance, and hardware upgrade. No need to pay electricity
bills. No need to rent floor space for a data center. No need to
hire people to run it. Access to a multitude of options and the
opportunity to experiment at a low price, without any capital
expenditures.
Elasticity and pay-per-use. The elastic environment model of
the cloud is usage-based, which makes it possible to easily
scale and increase computing power on-demand as well as
reduce hardware resources when they not needed.
Risk mitigation and maximum availability. Quick disaster
recovery and maximum resilience and uptime.
Security. This is a point of doubt for many, however thanks to
the economy of scale, large cloud providers can invest far more
resources to secure their applications and client data than most
corporations.
Big Data and advanced analytics. With the cloud, it is possible
to store, access and analyze almost unlimited volumes of data.
For companies that can employ the power of big data to
enhance their business performance, the cloud is the only
possible data model. (However, such companies may prefer a
private cloud model over a public/shared one.)
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2. Technical issues
2.1. How do we plan the migration? How should we
organize the entire process to make it efficient and
painless?
Here is our typical recommended migration framework:
Rehost
Lift and shift style migration by deployment of the app in the cloud
or migrating VMs.
Pros/Cons
Replatform
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Pros/Cons:
Might be the only way to migrate certain systems into the cloud
Opportunity to revisit the entire ecosystem
Time/budget constraints
Technology constraints
Refactor
Refactoring of applications
Merging applications
Pros/Cons
At first, we can always choose the quickest and easiest option and
then adapt the solution to the cloud as necessary. In our
experience, approximately one third of clients are fine with just the
rehosting option, and another third with the re-platforming option.
However, bear in mind that the cloud has huge transformational
potential and the migration is a great opportunity to optimize the old
architecture, get rid of unnecessary dependencies and replace the
obsolete parts of the system.
No: in case you use the system in a very specific way that
requires either numerous customizations and enhancements, or
some very specific performance / SLAs, so standard SaaS and
PaaS offerings will not work for you.
These are the two main dealbreakers that lead some companies to
develop their own solutions instead of extending third-party
products.
3. Financials
3.1. How do we measure financial gains? (Also,
‘cheaper or not?’)
There are several factors you should consider in order to determine
if the cloud is less expensive for you.
Wholesale discounts: the more you consume the less you pay,
relatively. Each successive terabyte will cost you less.
Each storage has SaaS- and PaaS-solutions that lower your
costs. You can use SaaS and pay less for the same service,
and you do not need to support and manage server instances.
Reserved instances provide a significant discount (up to 75%)
compared to on-demand pricing if you commit to use them for 1-
3 years ahead, especially if you pay upfront (all or part).
Spot instances are a bid for a low price version of on-demand
instances. The catch is that they could be shut down by the
provider when the spot instance price is higher than bid price.
Spot price fluctuates based on supply of and demand for
capacity. However, using spot instances can save you up to
90% compared to on-demand, and it is also possible to invest in
the development of a fault-tolerant system that is able to survive
the failure of a few instances (e.g. batch jobs or large analytics
jobs for big data processing). This will improve your architecture
and it will be a great option for reducing operational costs.
With the serverless approach, you pay only for the actual
amount of computational services provided (say, $0.20 per
million of requests) – you do not need to pay for virtual
machines anymore. Serverless is the next generation of cloud
infrastructure, and there are more and more serverless
applications every day.
3.3. What are the hidden costs of the cloud and how
can we avoid them?
One big source of unexpected costs is the lack of data
governance with too much of technical freedom. Sometimes
people simply forget to turn off virtual machines that they do not
really need. If nobody monitors the resource allocation, costs can
start to grow uncontrollably. It is highly recommended to plan ahead
for 12-18 months at least.
5. About DataArt
DataArt is a global technology consultancy that designs, develops
and supports unique software solutions, helping clients take their
businesses forward. Recognized for their deep domain expertise
and superior technical talent, DataArt teams create new products
and modernize complex legacy systems that affect technology
transformation in select industries.
DataArt has earned the trust of some of the world’s leading brands
and most discerning clients, including Nasdaq, S&P, Travelport,
Ocado, artnet, Betfair, and Apple Leisure Group among others.
Organized as a global network of technology services firms, DataArt
brings together expertise of over 2,500 professionals in 20 locations
in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
www.dataart.com
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