A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CLOUD ONBOARDING

Application workloads and implications for onboarding

INTRODUCTION

Do you feel confident you can deliver a smooth, trouble-free switchover to a cloud environment?

The complexity of the migration process is a big part of why enterprises are hesitant about cloud adoption, despite being sold on the benefits of cloud delivery.

This presentation helps you understand your workloads, explains why application onboarding may seem to be a challenge in the new IT reality and introduces the key concepts and considerations in a hybrid world.

WHAT IS AN APPLICATION WORKLOAD?

However, there are exceptions…

A workload is a characterization of the work that applications perform.

This includes the applications, systems, storage and network infrastructure.

The nature of the work is the load being placed on the infrastructure systems.

At a macro level, this is fairly similar to each company.

UNDERSTANDING YOUR WORKLOAD

MONOLITHIC WORKLOADS

Single purposeCustom builtRuns at scale

Dedicated application that run separate from general

business IT functions

Uncommon for businesses to have this type of environment

MIXED WORKLOADS

Each company will have a different combination of applications

Examples Examples

Classic IT workloadInternal business applicationDoes not run at large scale

Combination of off-the-shelf and

custom applications≠

HYBRID CLOUDS ARE THE NEW IT REALITY

Hybrid cloud environments are emerging as the dominant model for enterprises.

The integration of third-party cloud services with enterprise data-centre services is becoming common for several reasons:

Concerns about the security, stability or performance.

Avoid investment in unused capacity to handle demand spikes.

Not wanting to over-provision their infrastructure.

Need to migrate an executing workload from one environment to another.

Unless and until enterprises are ready to operate everything in a single cloud environment, a hybrid model is the way forward.

ONBOARDING IN A HYBRID WORLD

To make the most of hybrid cloud environments, enterprises need a well-understood and secure way to onboard workloads

The key elements of the hybrid IT architecture are: The enterprise data centre, which is

assumed to be at least partly virtualized.

The remote cloud environment: either a different enterprise data centre (private cloud), or the multi-tenant cloud platform of a cloud service provider.

WAN connectivity between the two, usually via a secure internet VPN.

End-user devices that access the applications hosted in the hybrid environment.

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