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Enabler #5 - Strong Governance for Visibility,
Continuous Process and Quality Enabler #6 - Key Cloud Performance Indicators
(KPIs)
Executing on the migration plan requires addressing all
moving parts during the migration project. Besides detailed
migration plans, checklists and automation, you need effec-
tive play calling, essential for the smooth execution of
migration tasks. Once assets are migrated to the cloud, there needs to be a
comprehensive governance and monitoring framework to
continuously track various aspects of the target platform
and applications. Even though many enterprises have mas-
tered this aspect in their data centers, the cloud platform
poses unique challenges where the same set of tools and
processes may not work due to various factors, such as
multi-tenancy, scale and lack of visibility/granularity to the
infrastructure layer.
Migration requires a factory and network operations center
like approach in which runbooks exist for the majority of the
tasks and scenarios and all relevant staff know exactly what
to do in which scenarios. You will also need a solid gover-
nance process to oversee the migration execution.
In a factory approach, you can dedicate a workbench (a
self-contained group with all the tools and skills) for a spe-
cific pattern. The workbench concept is also useful in scal-
ing, where additional workbenches are deployed to increase
the velocity of the migration effort when required. But mul-
tiple workbenches do pose additional challenges in terms of
governance and tracking, to make sure all parts of the fac-
tory are working to their optimal levels.
Besides deploying the typical infrastructure and application
monitoring and logging solutions, you need to monitor
additional elements when applications are in the cloud. A
few examples we consistently hear from clients include cost
management, posture and compliance. To keep tabs on the
environment, the cloud platform requires a different set of
tools and processes. We recommend defining cloud specific
KPIs to effectively monitor the target platform.
Templates
and Data
Model
Cloud,
Business Rules,
Weights and
Scoring
Managed
Cloud
Controls
Application
Migration
Framework
(AMF)
Migration
Operations
Center
Reusable
Patterns,
Checklists,
Execution
Plan
Blueprings
and
Automation
Figure 1: CTP’s Application Migration Framework (AMF)
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