Simplify Migration with RISC Network’s Complete App Analysis
Carmen Puccio, Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web ServicesJeremy Littlejohn, CEO, RISC Networks Don Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture, Turner Broadcasting
Benefits of AWS Migration
Scale
Consumes 40% of US internet bandwidth at peak hours
Security
Believes they can be more secure on AWS
than in any private data center
Cost-Effectiveness
Has reduced total cost of IT ownership
by 52%
High-Performance
Has reduced latency by more
than 90%
What are customers achieving with the AWS platform?
Barriers to Cloud adoption
Existing Investments Skeptical Stakeholders Upfront Costs
Application Interdependencies Fear of downtime during migration Lack of Cloud Expertise
Even if you’re ready to adopt, some real barriers make migrating quickly and cost-effectively a challenge:
Overcome these barriers with AWS and APN PartnersAPN Migration partners can help you:
Determine your migration strategy
Get a clearer roadmap to achieving your desired
end-state
Reduce project timeline, cost, and risk
Keep your people focused on business
innovation
Opportunity evaluation
Operations and optimization
Discovery, analysis,
and planning
Design Migration, integration and
validation
AWS Migration Process
AWS Core Migration Services
AWS Application Discovery Service AWS Server Migration Service AWS Database Migration Service
AWS Import/Export Snowball AWS Snowball Edge AWS Snowmobile
Asset Discovery/Migration Data Transfer
RISC NetworksJeremy Littlejohn, CEO, RISC Networks
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?
Use case - Marketing
Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)
Security Performance monitoring & trending
ITSM / CMDB
Use case - Marketing
Cloud Computing Disaster Recovery (DRaaS)
Security Performance monitoring & trending
ITSM / CMDB
Applications
Assets
Analytics
What does CloudScape do?
Add Intelligence to the Data
Act on your Intelligence
Collect Data
Consume Intelligence
What does CloudScape do?
Add Intelligence to the Data Automated Application Stack
Grouping / Discovery Application Rationalization Client Consumption by Location Advanced Visualization Cloud Pricing
Act on your Intelligence SI Focus Migration with Racemi /
Rivermeadow / CloudEndure / etc.
Collect Data Agentless Collection Single Virtual Appliance collection point Massive Scale with little impact Windows, Linux, Unix, VMware
Consume Intelligence Interactive Analytics Self Help Reporting Modules
Discovery + Analytics
What problems exist in my environment? How should I migrate to cloud? What’s low hanging fruit for optimization? What should I consider for disaster
recovery? What is the business case for change? What devices exist in my environment?
What applications do I have? How are my applications integrated? What is my resource utilization? What is my most important application? Where are devices and applications
located? What are my bandwidth requirements?
CloudScape migration story: Public or private cloud
Foundational
Use Case Specific
I am interested in cloud but I don’t know what/how to execute
I need to understand what I have
I need to organize this information by application
Then I want to monitor and track the changes of that application in the cloud
Then I want to migrate my application to that environment
Then I want an easy way to set up that cloud environment
Then I want to classify my applications to see what is easy/hard to move and why
Then I want to look at pricing & other factors around cloud providers to choose my destination
Collect Data with Scalable Virtual Appliance
Scales to Infinite Subnets VMware Performance and Inventory
(vSphere API) Network Infrastructure Performance
and Inventory (SNMP Read Only) Linux/Unix Performance and
Inventory (SNMP Read Only or SSH) Microsoft Windows Performance and
Inventory (WMI Used) Traffic Simulation (Opt in only) Traffic Capture (Socket & Flow based)
Secure Web Service**
**On-Premise Data Storage and Analytics Also Available
Analytics Layer
Comparative Analytics across 9,500+ Customers
Multiple Filed Patents
Architecture - Security
On-Customer Premise
Solve Client Problems Migrate Data Centers / Cloud Simulate App Traffic in the
cloud Have meaningful, data driven
conversations with your customer
Interactive Reporting
Collaboration Platform
Network Equipment Windows Servers Linux / Unix Servers (via SNMP)
VMware Infrastructure
Inventory – Hardware / Software / Operational Information
Performance - Hardware Information
RISC Networks data dictionary
The problem – Too much talking
Our goal
5 minute demo
Case Study: Turner BroadcastingDon Browning, VP of Cloud Architecture, Turner Broadcasting
Global media company, a division of Time Warner Owns and operates various television networks
including CNN, TBS, HLN, TNT, TruTV, and Bleacher Report
Founded in 1970 and eventually merged with Time Warner to operate as a semi-independent division
About Turner Broadcasting System
In the process of transforming their business to support digital distribution and consumption of content
The challenge
Was looking to focus on their core business transformation instead of maintaining their on-premises infrastructure
Needed to break organizational barriers that existed in their on-premises environment
“Turner decided it didn’t need to be in the datacenter business in order to be successful” – Don Browning VP of Cloud Architecture for Turner Broadcasting System
The challenge
Looking for a flexible and scalable environment that would grow along with their business
Why Turner chose AWS
Wanted to learn from other organizations that had completed similar migrations to AWS
Did not feel other cloud providers had the breadth and scale that AWS had to offer
AWS would allow Turner to gain business agility while reducing the man hours and costs to run their on-premises data centers
Turner tried to formulate a migration plan but did not know enough about their existing infrastructure to do so
RISC was recommended after Turner raised concerns to AWS about not fully understanding their IT environment
Turner realized RISC was critical in creating an actionable plan for the AWS migration and realized the benefits immediately
Why Turner chose RISC Networks
The process
RISC conducted a complete scan of Turner’s IT environment The scan allowed Turner to validate the dependencies
between applications Turner created two buckets of resources to migrate: cloud
ready and not cloud ready Turner conducted a pilot-mode migration for the cloud ready
applications After a successful pilot migration, Turner received the green
light to begin the migration process in July 2016
Able to construct an effective migration plan complete with list of applications and their dependencies
Benefits of RISC Networks
Discovered almost 1,000 servers they were running that were not being used and shut them down immediately (some within 10 minutes of the scan)
Able to analyze their sub-divisions and breakdown the entire migration process into smaller parts
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