Learn how to accelerate and de-risk your cloud migration project Despite the surge in enterprises migrating applications to the public cloud, more than half of all projects are delayed or over budget and an even greater number are more difficult than expected.1 Cloud Migrations don’t begin when you start moving applications into the cloud. They begin with your application landscape discovery and assessment. The second phase comprises the actual migration where applications are moved to the public cloud. Working with purpose-built enterprise-grade cloud migration platforms, especially those that partner to integrate both phases greatly simplifies and accelerates projects. RISC Networks and Velostrata have teamed up to deliver this webinar where we’ll share real-world examples, tips, and tricks on crafting a seamless cloud migration from start to completion.

1. WEBINAR:
Real World
Lessons in
Cloud Migration

2. The Agenda
 Adoption Challenges
 The Customer Journey
 Enterprise-grade Cloud Migration
 Real World Lessons – Case Studies
 10 Tenets of Enterprise-grade Cloud Migration
 Q & A and Demo

3. The Presenters
Jeremy is a recognized expert in the fields of Networking,
Cloud, and Unified Communications. He has written articles for
publications such as InformationWeek Analytics and Network
Computing. Jeremy has presented at global conferences and is
the co-author of six patents regarding IT Operations Analytics.
Jeremy graduated from Belmont University and holds a CCIE
certification from Cisco.
Ben leads the customer migration life-cycle from pre-sales discovery
through proof-of-concepts and value optimized deployments to post-
sales support. He has 10+ years experience at VMware where he drove
digital transformation projects as their lead solutions architect and
expert in VMware Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC) deployments.
Ben has a BA in Business Administration from the College of
Management, Israel.
Jeremy Littlejohn
CEO & Co-Founder
RISC Networks
Ben Hagai
Director, Technical Services
& Customer Success
Velostrata

4. Cloud Adoption Paradox—It’s Not About The Cloud!
The New Cloud Reality
Dimensional Research Report
• Surge in cloud migration with 96% migrating but only 4% completion
• More than half of migrations are delayed and over budget
• Almost 2/3 of projects are considered very difficult or failing
“Where cloud projects fail is not so much about the cloud selection
but about picking the wrong workloads to migrate and not paying
attention to security, governance, and other core services. “
David Linthicum, February 2018

5. Your Journey to the Cloud—Logical Steps
Velostrata—Validation and MigrationRISC Networks—Discovery and Analytics

6. Run
applications
In the cloud
RISC Networks—Discovery and Analysis Velostrata—Validation and Migration
Discover what
needs to
migrate
Organize
information
Understand
the cloud and
migration
Sort applications
by migration
effort
Model
discovery
information
Pre-validate
each
application
Migrate
storage
to the cloud
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Your Journey to the Cloud—Logical Steps

7. Creating Answers to Critical Questions
“If I don’t know what I
have, and I can’t ask
good questions about
my IT infrastructure…
…how can I take
advantage of these
solutions?”
Cloud and Data Center Migration?
Business Continuity and High Availability?
Security?
Performance Monitoring and Trending?
ITSM/CMDB Updates?
LAN Segmentation/SD WAN?
Application Portfolio Management?

8. RISC Networks—The IT “Answer Engine”
IT Infrastructure
• WAN Planning Projects
• Disaster Recovery Projects
• Bandwidth capacity planning
• Compliance and Governance
Public Cloud
• Application Discovery
• Cloud Cost Modeling
• Cloud Migration
Planning
• Application Dependency
Trending Analytics
• Comparative analysis
• Predict trends in
Infrastructure
• Make strategic decisions
• Compared against
thousands of companies
based on size and vertical
market
Cloud Migration – Public
• Cloud Pricing and Total Cost of Migration analysis
• R-Score Analysis and Migration Ranking
• Security Group Design

9. RISC Networks provides fully automated application portfolio discovery and rationalization – as well as ongoing
performance monitoring and analysis. This helps customers understand what applications they have, how they
are integrated, what issues they have, and how they can be optimized.
Application Dependency and Integration Mapping is the initial value proposition—and core to all of RISC Networks’ analytics.
The Big Challenge: Organize the Chaos

10. RISC Networks Metadata Layer
Foundation
VMsServers
Load
Balancer
Storage Network Processes
Application
Stack
Application
Stack
Security
DR
LAN
Segmentation
Problems
Public Cloud
Transformation

11. Prioritize and Rank Applications–Then Execute with Velostrata

12. Velostrata Export from RISC Networks

13. Scale
Thousands of
workloads
Complexity
Multi-tier apps,
large DBs (e.g., SAP)
Risk
Honor application
uptime SLAs, minimize
cutover downtime
Hybrid &
Multi-Cloud
Don’t put all eggs
in one basket
The Big Challenge Gets Bigger in Big Enterprises
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14. Velostrata Delivers a Seamless Journey to the Cloud
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Maximum
Uptime
Short, predictable
downtimes ensures
maximum application
uptime for
continuous 24x7x365
operations
De-Risk
Migration
To minimize risk and
ensure immediate
operability, mission
critical applications
are pre-validated in
the cloud prior to
actual migration
Complex Apps
With Ease
Easily migrate any
application
landscape: physical
or virtual, legacy or
modern, stateless or
stateful, large or
small database
Rapid
Migration
Rapid migration
times delivers new
services and analytics
to accelerate
customers’ cloud
consumption and
time to revenue
Non-invasive
Cutover
By avoiding agents
and replication
altogether, our
cutover is fast and
seamless, and
requires no
additional processes
or labor

15. Application Migration—Phases 1 and 2
Phase 1: Modeling
• Capture server dependencies in an
Automation Runbook
• Optionally document in a CSV file
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Phase 2: Test Before you migrate
• Test a thin application clone in the cloud
• Non-disruptive to live production
• Fully operational in minutes
Production (on-prem)
Hypervisor
DB App
BI VM
Data Center
Velostrata
(on-prem)
Production Use
VMDK VMDK VMDK
Public Cloud
Velostrata Edge
(active)
Application
Testing
Application Clone
Testing (in-cloud)
VM
Cache
Object Store
Thin Clone, Instant Start
On-Demand Data
VPN
Multi-tier Application
DB App
BI
Velostrata
Automation
Runbook
Velostrata
Automation
Runbook
Velostrata
Automation
Runbook
Velostrata
Automation
Runbook
Velostrata
Automation
Runbook
Modeling

16. Application Migration—Phases 3 and 4
Phase 3: Migrate
• Application & data in the cloud within minutes
• Sync back to on-prem as a safety net
• Remaining data migrated in background
• Compute resources on-prem can be repurposed during migration
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Safety Net (on-prem)
Hypervisor
VM
Data Center
Velostrata
(on-prem)
VMDK VMDK VMDK
Public Cloud
Velostrata Edge
(active)
Production Use
Migrated Application
Production (in-cloud)
VM
Cache
Object Store
Quick Cutover, On-demand Data
Write-back Safety Net
Background Data Migration
WAN Optimized Cross VM
VPN
Public Cloud
Production Use
Migrated Application
Production (fully migrated)
Native Cloud Storage
Phase 4: Detach
• Scheduled cutover with a 5-min detach from the
Velostrata cache, remaining with a fully
operational VM using native cloud storage
• Supports roll-back to Velostrata cached mode
• Storage on-prem can be repurposed or
decommissioned

17. Velostrata Benefits: By the Numbers
Time to Operation
Minutes
• Apps start in the cloud
right away
• Cold data fully
available while it
migrates in the
background.
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Labor Savings
Hours per server
• Save thousands of $$
per migration project
• Minimizes or eliminates
need for more IT staff
• Leverage In House skills
and staff
3-5
Shrink Cloud PoC
Days
• Typical PoC completes
within a week
• Accelerates decision to
start large scale
migration into the
cloud
2
Cloud Usage
Accelerate cloud
migration
• Faster time-to-cloud
enabled services
x5

18. Real World Lessons:
Case Studies

19. Ensure migration pipeline is always full
• Schedule ahead with application owners on move dates and validations needed.
• Discover and build automation runbooks for each migration batch
• Identify more sensitive applications that may benefit from “Test before migrate”
Network topology and interconnect checks
• Ensure discovered ingress/egress ports open between apps and user network
• Subnet and network security group placements
• Reduce DNS record TTL to 5min, ahead of migration. Will ensure clients are not affected.
Resource Planning, Light Transformation and Tracking
• Decommission obsolete databases and applications
• Plan and implement a tagging strategy. Tags can be specified in the automation runbook.
• Use migration transformation features to remove or update VM tooling and update licenses
• Use assessment & discovery to rationalize and right size your migration, plan cloud quotas.
Pre-Migration Housekeeping
Rationalize migration with application dependency mapping
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Efficient, “Right-sized” Migration
Industry: Media
Migration Scale: 11,000+ Servers
Key Takeaway:
“Turner decided it
didn’t need to be in the
datacenter business in
order to be successful”
-Don Browning VP of Cloud Architecture
Turner Broadcasting System
Business Objective
• In the process of transforming
their business to support
digital distribution and
consumption of content.
• Looking to focus on their core
business transformation
instead of maintaining their
on-premises infrastructure
Results & Impact
• Turner realized RISC Networks
was critical in creating an
actionable plan as they did
not know enough about their
existing infrastructure
• Discovered 10% of IT
infrastructure wasn’t being
used and shut down
• Accelerated plan to move
specific applications to AWS
https://www.riscnetworks.com/risc-on-aws/

21. 21
Datacenter Modernization
Industry: Energy & Gas
Migration Scale: 2,100+ Servers
Key Takeaway:
Reduce or eliminate
TCO overhead from
dual infrastructure
maintenance on-prem
& in-cloud with fast
cloud migration
solutions
Business Objective
• Vacate datacenter under tight
timeline to avoid contract
renewal costs
• Enable an agile DevOps
culture with fast proofs-of-
concept and minimum viable
product iterations (MVP) in
weeks and months
Results & Impact
• Completed the migration
project 5x faster than
anticipated.
• Accelerated from 30 VMs per
week to 30 VMs per day.
• IT delivered new services and
became a revenue driver in
months not years

22. 22
IT Transformation
Industry: Healthcare
Scale: 5,000+ Servers
Key Takeaway:
Build cost-
effective,
repeatable process
across thousands
of workloads
Business Objectives
• Empower IT to transform from
a cost center to a revenue-
generating organization.
• Re-allocate IT time away from
managing on-prem
datacenters towards driving
business.
Results & Impact
• Successfully migrated a
diverse application landscape
(virtual and physical, multiple
OSes, etc.) into the cloud.
• Savings of $2.8M in migration
labor costs. 5+ hours less per
server.
• Allocated saved hours to other
projects.

23. What Defines Enterprise-grade Migration?
1. Multi-cloud and Cloud-to-Cloud
Vendor-agnostic and cross-cloud mobility
2. Lifecycle based
Discovery/assessment through migration and cloud
optimization
3. Rationalized migration
Mapped to business goals from app portfolio
management & interdependency mapping, cost
modeling, security & compliance, business continuity,
high availability, and application SLA adherence
4. Speed-to-cloud
Decouples compute from storage = minutes to “in-cloud”
operation for maximum app uptime
5. Defies data-gravity
Any workload, even the most complex, data-rich, multi-
tiered and stateful ones
6. Safe
Pre-migration validation to accelerate buy-
in and optional instant rollback
7. Simple
Intelligent automation and orchestration
8. Scalable
Quickly repeatable across hundreds and
thousands of workloads
9. Cloud optimized
Workload adaptation & optimization
10. Continuous optimization
Trending analytics and insights to good
application performance across both
internal and external clients
The Ten Defining Tenants of Enterprise-grade Migration

24. Our Joint Solution Now Available
For information, contact us at:
RISC Networks
• EMAIL: sales@riscnetworks.com
• PHONE: +1 866-808-1227
• Website: https://www.riscnetworks.com/velostrata/
Velostrata
• EMAIL: sales@velostrata.com
• PHONE: +1 408- 444-6039
• Website: https://velostrata.com/accelerate-and-economize/
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25. Q & A and Demo
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=k5bOAr6nbFg