Determine Where Your Apps Should Live in a Multi-cloud World How do you reduce costs in existing apps to free up budget for investing in new cloud-native apps? By profiling apps and determining which to retire, modernize, or retire, as well as which are suitable for cloud; and determining the best cloud model for your applications. Our data-driven approach to application profiling is focused on an automated assessment of 5 key dimensions of your business applications: cost, value, technical, security, and functionality. Learn how this approach delivers results up to 50% faster than traditional models and requires 75% fewer customer resources.
Invest in & prioritize the most relevant applicationsFirst…Align Investments with Business Goals
• Overinvestment in traditional apps impedes ability to innovate• No clear path to take advantage of better utility pricing models (e.g., cloud)• Redundancy increases as business drifts away and starts building its own IT
“It’s way too expensive”
“It doesn’t meet my business needs”
• Redundant applications drive overinvestment
• Expensive legacy platforms with high internal support and maintenance costs
• Difficult to align investment with business priorities and urgent operational concerns
• Lack of business agility• Performance / availability issues
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Why is application alignment important to the business? When IT organizations fail to align with the business on application investment decisions, you tend to hear several types of complaints. First, you’ll hear from the business that the application doesn’t meet business needs. They’ll complain about lack of agility and IT responsiveness, or performance and availability problems, but these complaints may mask an underlying disconnect on investment priorities with the business. Another common complaint is that it’s way too expensive. Many production environments are based physical infrastructure sized for peak load, or even virtual infrastructure that has been over-engineered and largely sits there idling along. It’s sometimes expensive because 10 or 15 years ago corporate IT picked a standard Web server technology like WebLogic or Websphere, have built operational process around it, and have stuck with it ever since. Sure, back then these were best-in-class for the enterprise. But now things have changed. You probably don’t need all those bells and whistles. You probably could use a capable, but cheaper open source product. In either case, overinvestment in the wrong priorities means that the business is frustrated because they see insufficient IT investment in new business initiatives, and they may start to create their own IT solutions, often leveraging today’s agile cloud offerings.
Applications in Multi-cloud World: Challenges
• Where are the ‘quick win’ opportunities to reduce cost and improve agility in our application portfolio?
• What applications should we move to the Cloud? Is public, private or hybrid the best option?
• What legacy applications should be rewritten for Cloud Native architectures and PaaS?
• Which apps should we migrate to a DevOps operating model?
• How do we best align our portfolio with bi-modal or other IT delivery models?
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Here are some of the common challenges that IT organizations face when looking to begin to align with the business. IT is typically just keeping up with demands to run traditional applications. You will need to identify some quick win opportunities to reduce cost and improve agility with your traditional application portfolio. Moving applications to the cloud may appear to be straightforward, however, there are many considerations to place your application on the right cloud option. What applications should be rewritten to take advantage of cloud native architectures and Platform as a Service? Then there is question of application development and delivery, and determining which teams would benefit from implementing a DevOps operating model. It is difficult to determine the best portfolio alignment with which IT delivery model. Let’s start addressing these challenges.
Application Transformation FrameworkIncrease agility and reduce cost
EXISTING APPSTraditional
NEW APPSCloud Native
APPLICATION PROFILING ANALYSIS
MIGRATE
RETIRE
RETAIN
MODERNIZE
BUILD NEW
MIGRATION FACTORY
RETIREMENT FACTORY
TARGET PLATFORM
PivotalCLOUD FOUNDRY
ENTERPRISE & NATIVE HYBRID CLOUD
CLOUD NATIVE FACTORY
Pivotal Dojo
Architecture, Standards
Dev,Execution
DEVOPS
Architecture, Standards
MigrationExecution
Retire & Decommission
APPLICATION PLACEMENT FACTORY
PUBLIC CLOUD
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Dell EMC’s Application Transformation Framework enables us to help you fully understand your application portfolio and development environment. There are multiple points of entry depending on where you are on your transformational journey. If you haven’t evaluated the backlog of traditional applications, evaluating each application to determine the best disposition is a foundational step. We can help a customer determine the end state of applications whether they are best modernized, migrated, retired or simply retained and build the business case for the end state and appropriate target platform of each application.
PROGRAM MANAGEMENTAction Item/Risk/Issue RegistersProject Status Change Control
Communication PlanSteering Committee Dashboard
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Our patented application profiling methodology consists of 4 phases. We begin with the discovery phase where we perform Business Classification to prioritize align and rationalize the application portfolio and apply any applicable custom profiling. We can then begin the analysis phase where we perform the critical application disposition to determine the best investment path and perform affinity mapping. Cloud Suitability allows us to highlight transportability and map out the optional cloud platform for each application. Cloud Native assessment identifies candidates for application modernization by reviewing 12 readiness factors using non-intrusive data collection. Financial analysis and portfolio discovery to flesh out any app to app interdependencies, to mitigate risks, identify logical bundling and optimization that can occur. In the roadmap phase we consider a comprehensive business case that includes functional, financial, technology and actions to achieve your objectives. Program Management spans the entire project and is critical to cloud migration success. This includes: Building out a project charter, work plan, and steering committee to document weekly project status and communication plan Establishing quality assurance and change control processes Integrating real-time communications via our automated toolsets, which provide executive and planning dashboards with phase-by-phase tracking Assess cloud suitability Discovery and Analysis phase we: Begin by gathering information on the client’s current environment utilizing existing CMDBs and physical inventories Conduct interviews and workshops with the client’s stakeholders to gather information on their current and goal state environments Analyze application and infrastructure dependencies with advanced toolsets and establish bundling criteria Define a strategy and roadmap for migration, including bundles and move events, and develop an optimal migration schedule based on the bundles, risk analysis and resource availability The Planning phase includes: Pre-migration activities such as adding new capacity to target data center, installing applications, data replication Definition of testing plans based on app criticality and complexity Infrastructure mapping, including server from/to, network from/to, database from/to, storage from/to, data center from/to Automated creation of runbooks Table top reviews to assess app and infrastructure bundles, task owners/durations/handoffs, and contingency plans Execution of migration includes: Implementation of move events and migration schedule Continual tracking of migration progress and step completion Automated creation of final runbooks Through the utilization of automated tools, we are able to eliminate nearly 98% of human error and virtually eradicate sequencing and dependency errors. We are also able to shorten the discovery phase from 4-6 months to around 4-6 weeks, and reduce project elapsed times by up to 50%. We can execute migrations in the shortest amount of time possible with the greatest efficiency and lowest risk.
Business Classification
Applications mapped to business value
chain
Applications mapped to business activities
in value chain
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Here are two example deliverables from mapping applications to business processes with our toolset. These demonstrate the mapping of applications to the business value chain on the left, and the mapping of applications to specified activities within the value chain on the right.
• Profile for any characteristic or portfolio segment
• Utilize Adaptivity and/or other tools for greatest efficiency
• Leverage our deep application, infrastructure and financial analytics understanding
• Rapid results based on tools and experience
Custom Profiling
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We have the ability to focus in on a specific application characteristic or portfolio segment to tailor our analysis to your organizations needs.
Portfolio characteristics tied to rules engineApplication Disposition
Cheap to keep: leave alone if possibleCommodity, missing or weak
business functionality, strategic technology platform
Eliminate if you canCommodity, missing or weak business functionality, weak
technology platform
Maximize investments: High affinity to future
plans, low risk Strategic business
functionality, strategic technology platform
Migrate from outdated technology
or risky vendorsStrategic business functionality, weak
technology platform
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Let’s take a closer look at the disposition categories. Starting in the upper right quadrant, those applications which have high value both to the business and IT are targets for strategic investment, which means they should receive a disproportionately strong investment backing. In the opposite lower-left hand corner are those applications which are no longer valuable either to the business or to IT. These applications should be retired so that they will no longer drain the IT budget and deprive more valuable applications of investment. In the lower right hand corner are applications which are important to the business but which are not valuable to IT, typically because they are implemented with outdated technologies that are costly to support. These applications should be modernized to make them more cost-effective and easier for IT to support. In the upper left hand corner are applications which IT finds valuable but the business does not. In this scenario, the application should be retained in the portfolio as it is presumably simple for IT to support, but it should not be the target of further investment, as these dollars should be reserved for the more strategically important applications in the upper right hand quadrant.
Up to 6, integrates with non-cloud
Strict for workflow & data
Zero data loss, > 1 hour RTO
Strict workflow & data confidentiality
Dependent on specific HW & OS
Up to 3, limited with non-cloud
Vendor provided
Up to 4 hours RPO & RTO
Acceptable practices
OS & Dev language compatibility
Cloud suitability: Which is the Best Model?
Extremely sensitive, real time
High & sustained I/O rates
Some tolerated
Moderate to low I/O
Data sources
Compliance
Data loss
Security
Dependencies
Latency
I/O
Off Premises On Premises
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Let’s talk about some of the individual criterion you’d use to determine the best model. Is the app highly sensitive to latency? Is it real-time? Can it tolerate some time lapse while it waits for the network to get a message across? Does the app have high, sustained I/O rates? It probably WILL run in a public cloud, but how expensive will that be? You can read and write all you want in your own private cloud and no one is going to charge you a cent extra. But, the public cloud provider is not quite so flexible. How often does the app interact with other systems or other apps? Where are those systems located? How many systems or data sources are in play? Locations and frequency of interactions between the app and external systems will affect the complexity of moving the app. What about SLAs? A typical public cloud provider offers 99.95% availability. While complete system downtime is rare, an app could be down because one or more services that the app uses are down – remember those 25 services that the oil and gas data lake app was using? If the service level of one of those falls below 99.95%, what do they get? Service credits. If the business cannot take downtime on the app they are thinking of moving to a public cloud, it’s probably not a good fit. What about data loss? If your client needs zero data loss and <1 hour RTO, then they may not want to pay what the public cloud provider wants to guarantee that. But suppose they did contract for that, and there was a failure under that agreement, what damages can their business recover? Service credits. One last thing – not all public clouds meet the ISO certification required if your customer’s app processes PII – personally identifiable information. Here is a simple example: if all conditions are equal for either public or private, but the client is trying to drive costs into capital, they would lean toward a private cloud. If they are trying to drive costs into operating expense, then they would be more inclined to move to a public model.
Portfolio Perspective on Cloud SuitabilityCloud fit score
ranked by application
Business affinity by application
Business and technology criteria driving cloud fit
score
Summary of cloud suitability across
portfolio
Summary of recommended cloud
models across portfolio
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We provide both high level summary data across your portfolio as well as detailed cloud fit scoring based on business and technology criteria.
Cloud-Native Assessment
• Measure readiness for cloud native modernization
• Leverage 12 factors developed by Pivotal for Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployment
• Fully configurable to meet customer specific standards
• Non-intrusive data collection EOT ware
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Application Name
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Our Cloud Native assessment will measure the readiness of any given application for modernization by leveraging the 12 factors developed by Pivotal for Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployment. This non-intrusive data collection is fully configurable to meet your specific standards
Financial Analysis
• Repeatable process utilizes robust financial model
• Develops comprehensive TCO understanding
• Models ROI based not only on current versus future state TCO, but includes estimates for cost of transformation, maintenance, long term refresh, etc.
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Combined Operations Total Savings Migration Cost
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Our model is built around a repeatable process that develops a comprehensive TCO understanding. We look at current as well as future state of your portfolio and take all one-time, on-going, maintenance and refresh costs into consideration.
Application Portfolio Discovery
• Reduces risk associated with data center moves, app modernization, or migration
• Understands app to app & other critical interdependencies
• Leverages data from a variety of collectors
Grouping can be done by hosts or by applications
Components considered:• Business risks and constraints• Technology and operational challenges and constraints • Determining what to move together• Selecting best approach for the move
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Another critical step is the application portfolio discovery that help us to identify app to app interdependencies so that we have a full understanding of your application environment allows us to eliminate risk associated with cloud migration, refactoring, and modernization.
Business Case
• Based on Dell EMC roots in business and technology consulting
• Reproducible leveraging myriad artifacts
• Includes business, functional, and financial components for holistic understanding
• Develops roadmap in support of action
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We develop a comprehensive business case that includes functional, financial, technology and actions to achieve your objectives.
Key Benefits and Value
Aligns investments with business goals
Unbiased and objective review of your application environment
Identifies opportunities for cost savings in a customer's environment: Reduces server and database sprawl & automates and optimize application portfolio
Defines optimal path to the cloud for each application.
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Mitigates risk identifying EOL platforms.5
Increases productivity and improves user experience6
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When we begin working with you to build a multi-cloud strategy for your applications, we start by understanding your business goals so that we can align investments to maximize the impact and return on investment for your organization. How do we achieve this? We perform and objective and unbiased review of your application environment. We identify cost savings, which can fall into two major categories: either reducing server and database sprawl or recognizing automation and optimization opportunities for your applications. We define a roadmap to cloud, identifying the optimal path, whether with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Amazon, Google or other cloud platform for your applications. All the while, we are ensuring that we mitigate risk by identifying low business value & low IT value applications that can be EOL’d. All of these actions will increase the productivity and user experience for the organization.
Global Financial Services FirmRapid disposition analysis for over 5,000 applications Challenge• Large multinational banking and financial services company
operating in 80 companies • Driving large scale app modernization to reduce operating
costs and increase IT/business alignment• Needed rapid preliminary assessment of entire global portfolio
analysis of enterprise application portfolio• Evaluated ~80% of global portfolio based on systems of
record with no manual interviews required
Results• Provided analysis of over 5,000 applications in 6 weeks• Client gained a preliminary understanding of application
disposition as well as migration complexity for modernization• Client directed modernization spend based on disposition
recommendations
Disposition % of Portfolio Complexity
9% Easy
7%Easy
53%
31% Lift & Shift
+4%/yr
Retain
Retire
Modernize
Migrate
Build New
Scope of Applications Evaluated: 5,450
Easy (1,527)Med (1,014)Hard (348)
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NOTE: HSBC (NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE). Federation: DELLEMC, Disposition – APA and Modernize Customer Challenge- Large global application portfolio of over 5,000 applications needed to be analyzed in a short period of time to drive large scale app modernization with a goal of reducing operating costs and aligning IT with business priorities Our Sales Strategy and Key Actions Performed a Application Profiling Analysis (formerly known as Cloud Advisory) engagement which rapidly identified applications that are suitable candidates for retention, retirement, modernization, migration or new build. Our Solution After completing the analysis, we were able to categorize the applications as you see in the chart on the right. Not only did we clearly identify the applications where modernization is the best course of action, we further segments these as Easy, Medium and Hard to identify where we could demonstrate some quick wins and positively impact the business in the shortest period of time.
Use the right cloud platform for the right application
UNLOCK BUSINESS VALUEOptimize Your apps
Maximize your returnon investment
Effectively grow your business
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We provide a strategic framework for organizations looking to better manage their applications. It starts with assessing the application landscape, understanding what applications you have, how much data, where it is, how old it is, etc. and develop a path to success With the above knowledge, we will architect a solution that will meet your business objectives while addressing all your key challenges. The optimal design of your cloud platforms will incorporate lessons learned from our vast experience in the industry to mitigate risk and disruption to your business. By optimization the applications in your business, we can maximize your investment and enable you to use Microsoft technologies to make informed business decisions. Today has been the first step towards a lasting technology partnership that will lead to increased speed & agility as well as a reduction in cost & complexity of your IT environment.
Related resourcesWhite paper - http://www.emc.com/collateral/white-paper/h14672-application-portfolio-transformation-wp.pdf
ESG white paper - http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-report/application-profiling-dell-emc-method-service.pdf
Video – http://www.emc.com/video-collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/emc-evolve-revised-05-final.htm
