In this article I wanted to share with you some of the most common migration issues we recently encountered on a large scale data center consolidation project. Keep in mind that the below are all execution related issues, nothing to do with…
Is everything ready for your migration?
It is a wise idea to prepare a checklist to go through a few days before the scheduled migration date. As you are getting close to zero hour, your workload increases, you are busy chasing everyone, putting together the last pieces…
Data Center Migration Strategies and Methods
Are you moving to a new data center and you are wondering what are your options? Let’s review together the most common ways to deliver a successful migration. Migration Methods Lift & shift (L&S)*: shut-down your environment and physically relocate all…
4 Strategies to Migrate Your Virtual Machines To The Cloud
1. Lift & Shift With this migration strategy you move workloads from a source environment to a target environment with minor to no modifications or refactoring. The modification you apply to the workloads in order to migrate are only the…
How to Plan a Cloud Migration?
Let’s welcome 2020 with a Cloud based discussion, specifically let’s talk about Cloud Migrations. Cloud computing has been around now for more than a decade and it has become very common for organisations to execute cloud migrations in order to…
How Resilient is your IT Infrastructure?
A neglected legacy infrastructure is a serious threat to the business continuity of an organisation. Several issues combined (e.g. outdated hardware, low resilience and autonomy in the backup systems, poor maintenance and lack of proper BCP) can cause critical system…
Big Data Platform Migration – Testing
How do you plan your testing activities when it comes to migrate a big data platform? The purpose of testing The purpose of testing is ensuring that the end-to-end data flow is executed as expected and all the key phases…
Big Data Platform Migration – Project Plan
Let’s look at how we can plan the migration of a Big Data Platform to a new data center.
Common challenges of Data Center migrations
According to the results of a research of Xceed Group , which involved interviewing over 125 technology experts, just 1/3 of the migration projects went smoothly. It means that the majority of migrations are likely to fall short, negatively impacting BAU, not…
Why I Love Migration Projects
In the past years, I worked on several migration projects, mostly for global financial services organisations, such as Commerzbank, Santander and METLIFE. Working for such large and complex organisations can be truly challenging, however it offered me great learning opportunities,…