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 effective 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 mastered this aspect in their
data centers, the cloud platform poses unique chal-
lenges where the same set of tools and processes may
not work due to various factors, such as multi-ten-
ancy, scale and lack of visibility/granularity to the
infrastructure layer.
Migration requires a factory and NOC-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 governance 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 specific pattern. The workbench concept is also
useful in scaling, where additional workbenches are
deployed to increase the velocity of the migration
effort when required. Multiple workbenches do how-
ever pose additional challenges in terms of gover-
nance and tracking: ensuring all parts of the factory
are working to their optimal levels.
Besides deploying the typical infrastructure and
application monitoring and logging solutions, you
need to monitor additional elements when applica-
tions 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 spe-
cific KPIs to effectively monitor the target platform.
Templates
and Data
Model
Managed
Cloud
Controls
Migration
Operations
Center
CTP
Application
Migration
Framework
(AMF)
Cloud
Business Rules,
Weightings and
Scoring
Reusable
Patterns,
Checklists,
Execution
Plan
Blueprints
and
Automation
Figure 1: CTP’s Application Migration Framework (AMF)
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