Moving Applications to the Cloud: Does it make sense?

my name is Sean O'Leary I'm a lead applications transformation consultant
for HP
I'm still hammer I'm the directive application transformation for US public
sector
we're going to talk to you today about moving applications
to the clout show on what are the critical things to consider
when moving to the cloud Aust stew that's great question
because there are a lot of factors that you need to consider when
you're moving up cases the club the first thing have today
consider is that it may not make sense to move an application
clout so you have to get back to what are the drivers from for moving into the
cloud
they're kinda breaks into two categories: other technical reasons for
moving things the clout
I or other business reasons for moving things the clout
ask yourself is is this a like-for-like
transformation where the business has exactly but it has
right now after you moved to the clout in other words like for like
transformation means
we're doing it basically for technical or operational reasons
we're not really delivering a benefit in business process
in the transformation clout yeah I think in addition to that
one of the key items it to consider is that we
really need to focus on standards
standards are critical exactly wanted things that you have to considers you
need that
application framework in to use
when doing any type transformations so we use the
a framework where we do and assess transform
and manage days now what that gives us is the opportunity to go into all the
proper in else's
and planning so we can make all the proper decisions
about each and every application what's the best fit for it
still let's talk about some of the approaches we use when considering
which applications should be able to the cloud and hellish moved to the club
well the most important thing to consider
is first ball assessing applications for the clout
you have to determine what's clout compatible
what will never go to the clout in what you need to invest in transformation
to the clout in to do that we start with the assessment
and that assessment is a four step process the process is really getting a
good inventory
around your applications in your infrastructure and then
the second phase is doing a functional and technical quality using
the right tools to really assess the application
characteristics from top-down and bottom-up
and that feeds into the third step which is really
around the future state and gap first of all you determine
is a cloud-ready in what part so that application
need to be changed or if any at all and that's
you know lining that up with the future state and then
putting the gaps together in that feeds the four-step
which is the roadmap the roadmap provides short
medium and long-term initiatives to really
execute the movement that application environment to the clout
those are some great points let's talk about
why we do something that for instance we do all this analysis and planning
because we know that something's
don't belong in the cloud and some things do some things are
easy to get in the clout and some things are not so let's talk about clout in
general
so clout is a great way to move to commoditized hardware
I'm standard and repeatable operating platforms
so for example it's pretty easy to move the current release a Windows
application
to a cloud platform because you're gonna have a and a current release of Windows
operating system available
same thing with the Linux application it's easy to find Windows and Linux
platforms in the clout
anything of those bases it's probably gonna be
a lot more difficult to the clout when you look at the modernization strategies
are the ways it we transform applications they fall into three
main categories there's keep this change and there's retire
so it may make sense to keep the application now we have to decide
do we keep it on the platform in exists on right now or do we re hosted to a
cloud platform
we may change the application in which case the
application may need some transformations applied to it so it can
be clout compatible
is a good example that maybe you're running an application on the Slayers
platform
and you want to get it onto a platform it's offered in the clout
clout for Unix type: operating system
pretty much offers wide variety of Linux platforms
so you may have to do a transformation up the
so where specific code to move it over to the Linux compatible
calls and processes now the other thing you need to consider is
his retirement at the application retirement can fit in
with a lot of other strategies it may be that
you wanna retire it because you're moving to a cot solution a commercial
walk the shop
or you may even be moving to a software-as-a-service solution
being offered through the clout or maybe it's just obsolete functionality
you need to understand where that application is going
to exist two or three years down the line because it may look like
it's a good acting opportunity to move to the cloud right now
in make that make sense to move it now because the cost will never be regained
because can going to be retired in the near future anyways
I hope you found this information very valuable moving applications to the
cloud thank you very much Moving Applications to the Cloud: Does it make sense?