Post Cloud Migration Tests

Generally, the data center and cloud migrations are complex, and they set to fail if there is no solid strategy in place. Having the inventory of servers, applications hosted on each workload and dependencies are critical for the success of the project. Refer to this article for cloud migration assessment or data which needs to be gathered for migrations.

Once you have all the data required to group the workloads/ applications to migrate in each migration wave, they need to be tested pre and post-migration to ensure that the workloads/ applications

Cloud/ Datacenter Migration Data Gathering

According to my experience, Datacenter/ Cloud migration projects are one of the challenging and painful projects. Technically, actual server migration is not complicated, but Application dependencies on other apps or infrastructure components (SMTP, LDAP, Exchange, Load balancers, etc.) makes tough with respect to the planning of migration (schedule). The success of the migration depends on what level of data is available about a particular server/application and how you are capturing the details and migration schedule. To take an informed decision about when to migrate a particular server/ application, all application/ server needs to be available.

Double Take Cloud Migration Tool Gotchas

Double Take is the product from Vision Solution Group which helps organizations in near Zero downtime cloud and data centre server migrations, High availability, Disaster Recovery (DR) for IBM i, AIX, Windows and Linux server operating systems.

As part of my recent work on data center migration for one of the major banks in Melbourne,

Five Tips to Cut Cloud Computing Costs

Enterprises can benefit from the Cloud solutions (IaaS, MaaS, DBaaS, XaaS etc…) only if they are disciplined and organized with the resources they consume in Cloud. For example, if an organization moves to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform without cleaning up and right-sizing their virtual machines, they might end up spending more than what they would spend on their existing on-premise platform. I know, the cost is not the only factor for organizations to consume the Cloud solutions but it’s