Cloud Concepts: Planning an App Migration Strategy
1h 32mIntermediate2021-02-04
Authors

David Linthicum
Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting
Course details
For IT professionals, knowing how to efficiently handle application migration to the cloud is critical. In this course, cloud computing expert David Linthicum provides an approach and methodology for moving applications to the cloud. He begins by considering the business case for moving to the cloud, highlighting the risks involved, and providing an overview of public and private cloud migration. Next, he explains how to select the right workloads for migration; pick the right target platform whether it be public, private, or multicloud; use cloud-based tools from AWS and Microsoft; establish a process; get to a high scale when moving workloads; and understand security.
Skills covered
Cloud FoundationsCloud DevelopmentBack-End Web DevelopmentLearningWeb DevelopmentCloud Computing
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Take the migration journey with your applications to the cloud
- 02 - What you should know
1. Introduction to Cloud Migration
- 03 - Understanding the business case
- 04 - Understanding the risks
- 05 - Public cloud migration
- 06 - Private cloud migration
- 07 - Multicloud migration
2. Selecting the Workloads
- 08 - Good candidates for migration
- 09 - Not good candidates for migration
- 10 - Leveraging workload categories
3. Picking the Target Platform
- 11 - Public clouds
- 12 - Private clouds
- 13 - Multicloud
- 14 - Other options
4. Cloud-Based Tools
- 15 - AWS
- 16 - Microsoft
5. Setting Up a Migration Factory
- 17 - Workload triage
- 18 - Selecting tools
- 19 - Considering DevOps
- 20 - Creating a process
6. Migration at Scale
- 21 - Getting as many as 10 100 applications a day
- 22 - Organization and skill considerations
- 23 - Considering security
- 24 - Considering governance
- 25 - Summary
Conclusion
- 26 - Next steps