Strategy &
Economics
Security &
Governance
Security Controls
and Assessment
CSA/ISO Standards
Cloud Readiness
Assessment
Organizational
Alignment
ROI/TCO Analysis
Economic Models
Security Technology
Assessment
Tools, Architecture
Remediation and
Implementation
for a Secure Cloud
Application
Portfolio
Assessment Application
Migration &
Development
(MVC)
Portfolio
Readiness Assessment Infrastructure
Modernization
Automation
AppVista
Minimum Viable
Cloud (MVC)
Capabilities Matrix POCs & Pilots
Application Cloud
Roadmap & Plans Application
Migration
Factory
Avid’s cloud adoption progressed in a similar fashion.
In the strategy and economics phase, a TCO / ROI
analysis demonstrated a strong business case for
moving to AWS: Avid would reduce its IT data center
operations expenses by 50%.
Moving through the CAP, the Avid team completed
portfolio assessments and automated the deploy-
ment of Avid’s Virtual Private Clouds before entering
the application migration phase of the project.
Workloads moved to AWS run the gamut from mis-
sion critical back office applications to customer fac-
ing, revenue generating web applications including:
Cognos, Confluence, Ping, Sitecore and AVID Licens-
ing Applications. CloudEndure’s real-time, continu-
ous block-level replication was used to reliably
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DevOps Maturity
Assessment
Build Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Reference
Architecture
through 6 key stages of cloud adoption starting with
strategy and economics, all the way through portfolio
assessments and migration, to DevOps and Clou-
dOps. While companies may enter the Cloud Adop-
tion Program at different points, the majority share a
common set of requirements and objectives that CAP
addresses in a structured, consistent manner.
DevOps
CloudOps
Service
Management
Cloud Operational
Model
Governance, Billing,
Chargeback, Audit,
Logging, Escalation
DevOps
Automated
Services
Organizational
Playbooks
Training
migrate the entire stack of both physical and virtual
servers to AWS.
Avid’s cloud adoption program migrated over 100
servers to AWS and implemented an AWS Storage
Gateway/VTL for use of systems in Avid’s colocation
facilities. To help accelerate the migration of work-
loads to AWS, AT&T Netbond MPLS services were
used to provision AWS Direct Connect service in only
2 weeks, as opposed to the typical 10 weeks required
to provision a dedicated circuit.
In the final stages of the project, the team optimized
Avid’s deployment architecture for Sitecore, their
new CMS, and implemented an AWS tagging scheme
to facilitate the analysis and management of all AWS
resources.
Avid’s all-in move to the cloud has delivered huge
value in both operational cost savings and in promot-
ing business agility. Quickly achieving these objec-
tives, however, required a highly prescriptive
approach to cloud. Before going all-in, follow Avid’s
lead and create your own cloud adoption program to
get you there successfully, the first time.