Cloud Migration Strategies
Strategies for managing the journey.
September 24, 2020
8:30am-4:15pm CST
7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded
Conference location: ONLINE
Overview
Cloud Computing has shown tremendous benefits to organizations of all sizes, but is not without it’s pitfalls.
What You Will Learn
In this one day conference attendees will learn:
- Digital Transformation: How Business & IT Should Think About Cloud Migration
- Determining the Level of Integration- Shallow Integration Versus Deep
- Cloudbury Tales- How Life Fitness Succeeded with Cloud Migration
- Cloud Migration Could Be Your Dress Rehearsal for IT Disaster Recovery
- Best Practices for Designing the Securing of Your Cloud Infrastructure
- How to Calculate the Cost of a Cloud Migration (Panel Discussion)
Conference Price: $0.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Conference Program
9:00am-10:00am: Digital Transformation: How Business & IT Should Think About Cloud Migration
Ian Willoughby, Chief Architect, Cloud Solutions, 2nd Watch
Digital transformation is changing how organizations in every industry approach their business strategy, serving as the foundation of their technology initiatives. Key among this includes cloud adoption, which is not just about IT savings, but where organizations are leveraging new ways of doing business for competitive advantage.
In this session, attendees will learn how IT:
- can take a leadership role with the business
- capitalize on the business opportunities of the cloud
- lay the groundwork for a smooth transition
- find opportunities for innovation
Willoughby
10:00am -10:30am: Refreshment Break
10:30am -11:30am: End-to-end Cloud Transformation & Governance
Jens Rieskamp, Director Product Inception, LeanIX
It’s 2020, and still 70% of transformation project fail. Cloud adoption is accelerating, but so many companies are still struggling to plan a migration & setup a proper Governance in a reliable way. Do you have questions like “what are the 120 AWS accounts that be just discovered are about”, and “who is the owner of a troublesome cloud account”? Then this talk from LeanIX can give valuable insights on how successful companies provide transparency and the required business context.
Rieskamp
11:30am-12:30pm: Multi-Cloud Migration Strategies: Planning for Success
Patrick Cannon, VP Technical Sales, US Signal Company
- How to create a flexible architecture…and why!
- Workload strategies and impacts.
- Three phases of a successful migration strategy.
- How do we plan appropriately?
Cannon
12:30pm – 1:30pm Lunch break
1:30pm-2:30pm: Cloudbury Tales- How Life Fitness Succeeded with Cloud Migration
Jeffrey Siegrist, Senior Manager, Development & Analytics, Life Fitness
Cloudbury Tales offers a first-person view of moving 600+ applications and 6 major ERP’s to the cloud. We’ll start at the genesis of the project and explore the often untold stories including the challenges, victories, and unexpected.
We will cover:
- Composition of teams within a cloud migration
- Setup and planning of migration activities
- Planning and dynamic project management processes for cloud migrations
- Critical factors for successful migrations and special considerations for ERP or other large critical applications
Siegrist
2:30pm-3:00pm: Refreshment Break
3:00pm-4:00pm: Cloud Migration Could Be Your Dress Rehearsal for IT Disaster Recovery
Annur Sumar, Chief Technology Officer, MaeTech
Day-to-day threats can destroy data and ruin a business. That’s why it is critical for all businesses to have a current, active disaster recovery (DR) plan. If you’ve completed a cloud migration project, perhaps it was your dress rehearsal and your chance to see how well prepared you really are.
In this session, attendees will learn to adapt their BC/DR plans to support Cloud Migration.
Areas that will be covered include:
- Server operations failover and failback
- Production application-specific operations failover and failback
- Production database operations failover and failback
- Production workload failover and failback
- Workload onboarding into public cloud
- Software and data dependency discovery and mapping
- Critical path analysis of recovery and continuity workflows
- Production data consistency and integrity assurance
- WAN throughput and latency optimization
Sumar
4:00pm-5:00pm: How to Calculate the Cost of a Cloud Migration (Panel Discussion)
Moderator:
Jeffrey Dorey, Enterprise Account Executive, 2nd Watch
Panelists:
Sergey Chernov, VP, Information Technology & Enterprise Architecture, Ensono
Kirby McCord, Senior Manager Infrastructure Architecture, U.S. Cellular
Nisar Syed, Director Operations & Infrastructure, IT, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Irene Oh, Vice President, IT Services and Operations, Reyes Holdings
and other Enterprise IT Cloud Executives
A cloud migration effort is rarely simple and many enterprises underestimate the costs associated with cloud usage and migration. In this session, attendees will learn how to deal with the different Cloud costs, namely, Current application and infrastructure costs, Cloud infrastructure costs and Cloud migration costs.
Chernov McCord Syed Oh Dorey
Conference Price: $0.00 per person
Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.
Exhibits
As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.
CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORS
