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August 2020 Newsletter, Tidal

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You may not believe it, but it’s August, and we’re cramming in as much of the goodness of the season as the world will allow. Hope you’re all hanging in, and meanwhile, check out what’s been keeping us busy.

WHAT’S NEW WITH US

AWS Community Builders

In true support of sharing-the-love, we are super proud of our very own Cloud Teacher and CEO David Colebatch, who, as a cloud migration community builder, was included in the launch of a new Community Builders program by AWS, which provides resources and mentorship to people new to cloud. Way to go, sensei!

PARTNER’S CORNER

In striving to help our migration partners provide their customers with the efficient, seamless cloud migrations they expect, we continue to be joined by new partners who make this their aim as well.

A warm welcome to VAST and Click as they join us in the journey to the cloud!

TIDAL EVENTS

We’re coming up on our next All-Virtual Migration Enablement Workshop set for Tuesday, September 16, 2020. Register now and join us from home while our own David Colebatch walks you through the first 3 phases of the cloud migration process.

Can’t wait? You can sign up for a one-on-one if you like the sounds of a dedicated, private workshop, with our team.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHT

PUBLIC DOMAINS FEATURE

We have significantly improved the usability of the Public Domains feature. You can use this feature to instantly identify and analyze a whole series of any application endpoints that need to be included in your cloud assessment. We’ve now made it possible to save the results so you can easily come back to continue your assessment anytime. The mobile and tablet support has been improved as well! Try it out for free right now!

ASK DAVID

“I can’t afford to review all of my apps right now, just a subset. How would I decide which apps to include in the smaller sample?” - Praveen from Hyderabad

Great question Praveen,

Many of our clients begin their journey with assessing a subset of their application portfolio. How you select which applications can depend on a number of factors, but most important is to understand what the goals of the assessment are:

  • Is there an end-of-life for some computing or storage hardware?

  • Do you need to avoid end-of-support for the version of software you’re running?

  • Are you trying to determine cloud ROI?

  • Is there an upcoming end of lease or sale of the datacenter where these apps reside?

  • Is the department being sold and the apps need to migrate outside your datacenter?

  • Is a specific department interested in adopting modern application development?

  • Are you trying to better understand your IT environment in order to create an assessment and migration factory for a wholesale move to the cloud?

We had a recent client facing a hardware refresh where, in order to avoid the upcoming hardware purchase, they had budgeted 2 years to “lift & shift” or rehost their applications using a cloud IaaS offering. By taking a business-first, data-driven approach to provide a speedy assessment, the client found that they could perform a transformative migration and adopt cloud-native services in only 15 months. Avoiding doing a migration 2-step (rehost, followed by modernize) the client saved a great deal of cost and effort.

I can’t go into all of the details in the newsletter, however, when selecting which applications to assess, identify the goals and budget available for the project and choose accordingly.

As an example, when looking at a move to cloud-first and cloud-native, select applications representing a cross-section of the departments, technologies and locations. Strive for 15-20% of the total portfolio, or the maximum your budget can support. You will be able to extrapolate from the assessment data to better understand what the total effort will look like.

A lengthy answer to a small question, but I hope this helps!

Keep those questions coming!

David

PRODUCT NEWS

See the changelog for more updates and keep those product ideas and feedback coming at info@tidalcloud.com.

TIDAL WEBINARS

If you’re looking to access our past webinars, they’re available on demand after you register. Topics include: ingesting your application portfolio, source code analysis and more.

CLOUD NEWS

That’s all for August 2020. If you’ve had a good time with us this newsletter, let us know by sharing on social media (links below) and keep your friends up to date.

And in case you missed it, check out our July newsletter.

Stay united and see you in September!

-Tidal