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Cloud Migration Strategies

Strategies for managing the journey.

September 18, 2019

8:30am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

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
• Single Cloud Provider Versus Multiple Cloud Providers
• Creating a Data Migration Plan
• Establish Cloud KPIs- Performance Reality Versus Expectations
• How to Calculate the Cost of a Cloud Migration
• Best Practices for Designing the Securing of Your Cloud Infrastructure
• Cloud Migration Could Be Your Dress Rehearsal for IT Disaster Recovery

Conference Price: $289.00 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.

8:00am – 8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am-9:20am: Digital Transformation: How Business & IT Should Think About Cloud Migration

Robert Christiansen, VP, Client Advocate – Office of the CTO, HPE

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

Christiansen

9:20am -10:10am: Determining the Level of Integration- Shallow Integration Versus Deep

David Musci, Director of Cloud Engineering, Hitachi Vantara

When you move an application from on-premise to the cloud, there are two ways you can migrate your application—a shallow cloud integration, also known as, ‘Lift and Shift’ or a deep cloud integration.

In this session attendees, will learn which approach best suits their environment.

Musci

10:10am -10:40am: Refreshment Break

10:40am-11:30am: Single Cloud Provider Versus Multiple Cloud Providers

Michael Rymkiewicz, Vice President, Dito

When migrating your applications to the cloud, leveraging a single cloud provider is relatively simple, however, the challenge is vendor lock in. Leveraging multiple cloud providers may help you avoid vendor lock-in, however, it can get more complicated as there are several different models for leveraging a multitude of providers.

Pros and cons of different approaches will be discussed as well as the different models.

Rymkiewicz

11:30am-12:20pm: Multi-Cloud Migration Strategies: Planning for Success

Tom McKowen, Cloud Computing Architecture, US Signal
Jim Schuyler, Inside Solution Architect, US Signal

• How to create a flexible architecture…and why!
• Workload strategies and impacts.
• Three phases of a successful migration strategy.
• How do we plan appropriately?

        
McKowen     Schuyler

12:20pm – 1:10pm Luncheon

1:10pm-2:00pm: Cloud Watch Points- Security Stumbling Blocks to Watch Out For

Derek Milroy, Sr. Security Engineer, U.S. Cellular

In this session, Derek Milroy, at CAMP IT regular speaker will share his thoughts on the security stumbling blocks to be aware of when going through a Migration.

Milroy

2:00pm – 2:50pm: Cloud Migration Could Be Your Dress Rehearsal for IT Disaster Recovery

Marc Kreppel, Area Manager, Zerto

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

Kreppel

2:50pm – 3:20pm: Refreshment Break

3:20pm-4:10pm: Best Practices for Designing the Securing of Your Cloud Infrastructure

Ryan F. O’Halloran, Chief Technology Officer, Access One, Inc.

As enterprises move their applications and data to the cloud, executives increasingly face the task of balancing the benefits of productivity gains against significant concerns about compliance and security.

Security in the cloud is not the same as security in the corporate data center. Different rules and thinking apply when securing an infrastructure over which one has no real physical control.

Areas that will be covered include:

• End-to-End Encryption for Data in Transition and Data at Reset
• Ongoing vulnerability testing
• Defined and enforced data deletion policy
• Protective levels with user-level data security
• VPC and VPN
• Compliance certifications

O’Halloran

4:10pm-5:00pm: How to Calculate the Cost of a Cloud Migration

Moderator:
Brian Bushong, Senior Account Executive, American Digital Corporation
Panelists:
Kumail Razvi, Sr. Manager – Cloud Data Engineering, Discover Financial
Ryan Nikolich, Director of Network Administration, Pepper Construction Group
Nisar Syed, Director, Service Delivery, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Irene Oh, Head of IT, Museum of Science and Industry
Doug Zelinka, Executive Global Director, Infrastructure & Service Delivery, Akorn Pharmaceuticals
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.

                         
Razvi          Nikolich      Syed              Oh               Zelinka       Bushong