Cloud Concepts: Planning an Application Migration Strategy
1hIntermediate2024-10-24
Authors

David Linthicum
Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting
Course details
For IT professionals, knowing how to handle application migration to the cloud efficiently is critical. In this course, cloud computing expert David Linthicum provides you with an approach and methodology for moving applications to the cloud. Begin by considering the business case for moving to the cloud, exploring the risks involved, and gaining an understanding of public and private cloud migration. Learn 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. Plus, dive into how AI and AI tools should be used within a migration.
Skills covered
Data Resource ManagementCloud AdministrationDatabase ManagementCloud ComputingOne-Off
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
- 08 - Cloud-based AI migration
2. Selecting the Workloads
- 09 - Good candidates for migration
- 10 - Poor candidates for migration
- 11 - Leveraging workload categories
- 12 - Creating migration priorities
3. Selecting a Target Platform
- 13 - Public clouds
- 14 - Private clouds
- 15 - Multicloud
- 16 - Other cloud platform options
4. Cloud-Based Tools
- 17 - AWS migration tools
- 18 - Microsoft migration tools
- 19 - AI migration tools for cloud computing
5. Setting Up a Migration Factory
- 20 - Workload triage
- 21 - Selecting tools
- 22 - Considering AI with cloud migration
- 23 - Considering DevOps
- 24 - Creating a process
6. Migration at Scale
- 25 - Getting up to 100 applications a day
- 26 - Organization and skill considerations
- 27 - Security considerations
- 28 - Governance considerations
- 29 - AI and generative AI considerations
Conclusion
- 30 - Learning more about cloud migration