InnoTech OKC 2022 – Going Beyond “Lift and Shift” - Getting the Most Out of the Cloud

InnoTech OKC 2022 – Going Beyond “Lift and Shift”: Unlocking the Full Potential of Cloud Migration
Cloud adoption has reached a tipping point, with 75% of enterprises now leveraging cloud technologies in some form—whether through rehosting, replatforming, or rearchitecting. While early migrations focused primarily on reducing CAPEX and shifting to predictable OPEX, today’s organizations expect far more from the cloud than simple cost savings.
To truly maximize the benefits of cloud computing, businesses must go beyond “lift and shift” migrations and embrace strategies that unlock agility, scalability, and innovation. This presentation explores modern cloud migration approaches and provides actionable insights for organizations seeking to transform their IT landscape.

Key Highlights:


Desired Business Outcomes from Cloud Migration
Understand how cloud adoption drives not just cost optimization but also speed-to-market, operational resilience, and innovation.


Technical Drivers of Cloud Migration
Explore the infrastructure and application-level considerations that influence migration strategies.


Cloud Modernization Essentials
Learn why modernization matters and how it enables advanced capabilities like automation, AI-driven analytics, and elastic scalability.


Application Portfolio Rationalization
Discover how to assess and prioritize applications for migration based on business value, complexity, and ROI.


Modernization Use Cases and Case Studies
Gain insights from real-world examples of organizations that successfully modernized their workloads for maximum impact.


Establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)
Learn how a CCoE fosters governance, best practices, and cultural alignment across your enterprise.



Why This Matters
Cloud migration is not just a technical exercise—it’s a strategic enabler of digital transformation. Organizations that move beyond basic rehosting unlock capabilities that drive competitive advantage, including:

Faster deployment cycles.
Improved security and compliance.
Enhanced customer experiences.
Greater operational efficiency.


About the Presenter
Michael Agarwal, Director & Global Practice Leader for Cloud and NoSQL Databases and Site Reliability Engineering at Datavail, brings 20+ years of IT experience, including 8+ years in cloud strategy and implementation. His expertise spans AWS and Azure, enterprise architecture, and large-scale modernization initiatives.

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1. Going Beyond “Lift and Shift:” Getting the Most Out of the Cloud

2. 25 years in IT Past: Software Developer, DBA, TPM, Cloud Architect, etc. Currently Global Practice Leader at Datavail (Lead database migration & modernizations, Site Reliability Engineering and NoSQL practices) 8 years of experience with AWS & Azure Worked for Hertz & AWS in past www.datavail.com 2 M Michael Agarwal Datavail Director & Global Practice Leader for Cloud Databases, SRE & NoSQL Connect or follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/MichaelAgarwal/

3. Datavail at a Glance Delivering a superior approach to leveraging data through application of a tech-enabled global delivery model & deep specialization in databases, data management, and application services. $25 M Invested in IP that improves the service experience and drives efficiency 15 + Years building and operating mission critical data and application systems 1,000 + Employees www.datavail.com 3

4. Datavail is Growing Rapidly Because of Our Cloud Expertise Gold Partner 18+ years of experience 7 – Gold Competencies 2 – Silver Competencies 550+ Microsoft Consultant Certifications Recognized in 2017 by Microsoft as Cloud for Global Good Partner of the Year Advanced Tier Partner 9+ years experience 100+ AWS Certified Consultants Window Workload Competency One of 20 Database Specialist Partners 150+ Successful AWS Migrations & Modernizations Service Delivery Partner – Amazon EC2, RDS, Aurora Oracle Partner 15+ years of experience 17 – Specializations 300+ Oracle Certifications Certified Cloud Excellence Implementor for EPM Strong relationship with Oracle’s EPM and Analytics Prod D ev O rg Regularly selected by Oracle to Present at Industry Conferences

5. A Our Agenda Simply migrating to the cloud with a “lift and shift”' approach does not result in innovation, but it does add another level of complexity to operations. - Gartner Why Cloud? Desired Business Outcomes Why Cloud? Technical Drivers Cloud Services Market Evolution Application Portfolio Rationalization – 6 R’s Modernization Use cases Modernization Summary www.datavail.com 5

6. Inputs: Best Practices and Lessons Learned Industry Analysts Datavail’s 500+ Customers Leading Cloud Providers A unique perspective on cloud best practices!

7. Cloud is at an inflection point TODAY What % of customers have migrated to the cloud in some shape and form? About 75% of enterprises have done some combination of Rehost / Replatform / Refactor. www.datavail.com 7 What % of Cloud migrations is mainly Lift and Shift? About 2/3 of the migrations are focused on the “Lift and Shift” Rehost strategy.

8. Cloud Strategies Have Flipped Infrastructure-led Analytics Platform & Security Cloud Provider Databases Applications CLOUD 1.0 = DC / Server Based CLOUD 2.0 = Workload Based “Infrastructure-led to Applications-led engagements …where MSPs deliver professional and managed services that focus on business outcomes using public cloud services” Gartner Jan 2022 Application-led

9. Growth Innovation – new business models, markets, products New Customer Engagement Models Competitive Advantage Mergers and Acquisitions Business Continuity Agility, Time to Market Rapid Business Insights Business Scalability Efficiency Improved Collaboration Cost Efficiency Flexible Economic Models Rapid Deployments Reliability and Stability High Availability / Disaster Recovery Compliance and Security Why Cloud? Desired Business Outcomes

10. Why Cloud? Technical Drivers Reduce Costs Easy to Scale (or Autoscaling) Improve Performance Easy to Modernize Applications & Databases Easy to Scale G lobally Easy to Configure for HA & DR Reduce Licensing Cost Automate Using DevOps & IaC Improve Security

11. Cloud Modernization Monolithic Architecture Build / Release Problems Increasing Cost Security Gaps Highly Secure Legacy Databases Modern RDBMS & NoSQL Reliability Problems Improved HA & DR Cost Savings DevOps Microservices

12. Infrastructure / Security / Observability Modernization Discover and Assess Infrastructure / Security / Observability Portfolio for Modernization Infrastructure / Security / Observability Portfolio Assessment (Data center or cloud hosted) Modernization Roadmap Improved Observability & Security Improved Processes and Cloud-native Tools Future State Architecture Improved IaC & DevOps

13. Application Portfolio Rationalization – 6 R’s www.datavail.com 13 Use Migration Tool Install Config Deploy Determine Platform Modify Infrastructure Buy Install/Setup Redesign App/Code Development ALM/SDLC Integration Retain (Keep on Prem) Retire (Sunset App.) Rehost (IaaS) Replatform (PaaS) Repurchase (SaaS) Refactor (Build Cloud Native) Determine Discover Production Transition Manual Automate Validation

14. Why Modernize to PaaS (Database Example)? Schema, Database code, Tuning On-Premises Power / network / HVAC Hardware Lifecycle Server Maintenance Virtualization & OS Install OS Patching DB Software Install and Upgrades Database Backups HA, Scaling, DR IaaS Power / network / HVAC Hardware Lifecycle Server Maintenance Virtualization & OS Install OS Patching DB Software Install and Upgrades Database Backups HA, Scaling, DR Schema, Database code, Tuning Managed Service / PaaS Power / network / HVAC Hardware Lifecycle Server Maintenance Virtualization & OS Install OS Patching DB Software Install and Upgrades Database Backups HA, Scaling, DR Schema, Database code, Tuning

15. Legacy Application Modernization – Key Drivers www.datavail.com 15 Speed of Innovation/Improved DevOps Want horizontal scaling and distributed processing Need better performance License Freedom & Cost Savings Microservices adoption

16. Database Modernization Use Cases www.datavail.com 16 Commercial licensed RDBMS  Open-Source RDBMS License cost savings RDBMS  NoSQL (DynamoDB / MongoDB / CosmosDB ) Want horizontal scaling & distributed processing Instead of using RDBMS consider using Cache DB, Graph DB, Elasticsearch, NoSQL, MPP etc. Using purpose-built databases RDS PostgreSQL  Aurora PostgreSQL PostgreSQL  Azure Hyperscale Citus Need better performance On-premise SQL Server  VM on Azure  Azure Managed Instance  Azure SQL DB SQL Server on EC2  AWS RDS SQL Server Less management overhead

17. Database Migrations and Modernizations Amazon RDS Amazon EC2 Amazon Aurora Amazon DocumentDB Azure VM Amazon Keyspaces Azure Managed MySQL Azure Managed MariaDB Azure Managed SQL Azure Managed PostgreSQL Database Migration Service Database Migration Service Amazon DynamoDB Azure CosmosDB

18. CASE STUDY 1: Financial Services Software Company Migration Followed by Modernization on AWS Migration Amazon EC2 Amazon RDS Modernization Challenges Key Activities Outcome Lack of scalability Lack of reliability Licensing cost of SQL Server Provided SQL Server and MySQL expertise Assessment of infrastructure, databases, and workflows Cost efficient AWS solution Migration planning Testing and Go Live Increased scalability Higher availability No licensing cost 24x7 DBA support

19. CASE STUDY 2: Large Designer Store Chain Modernization Followed by Migration on Azure Business/Technical Drivers Key Activities Outcome Open-Source and Cloud Adoption Licensing cost of SQL Server Frequent release problems Provided SQL Server and MySQL expertise Assessment of infrastructure, databases, and workflows Cost-efficient Azure solution Migration planning Testing and Go Live Stable release process No licensing cost 24x7 DBA support Modernize Migrate Azure Managed Instance for MySQL

20. CASE STUDY 3: Fraud Detection Software Company Modernize and Migrate on AWS Challenges Key Activities Outcome Data increase Lack of scalability Cost of license for Oracle Enterprise Edition Provided Oracle and PostgreSQL expertise Assessment of infrastructure, databases and workflows Cost-efficient AWS solution Migration planning Testing and Go Live Improved performance Increased scalability No licensing cost 24x7 DBA support Modernization + Migration Amazon Aurora (PostgreSQL)

21. CASE STUDY 4: Global Transportation and Logistics Services AWS Landing Zone and MySQL Expertise Challenges Key Activities Outcome Lack of AWS knowledge Lack of DevOps Needed MySQL expertise Provided AWS, DevOps & MySQL expertise Implemented AWS Landing Zone using Terraform Implemented DevOps using AWS CodePipeline Testing and Go Live Successful Launch Fast time to market AWS SRE support 24x7 MySQL DBA support Go to market

22. Center of Excellence COE Cloud Engineers / SRE Cloud Solution Architect Cloud Database Administrator Partnerships Training Certifications Create a Center of Excellence for strategic cloud focused initiatives Perform Builds using the Well Architected Approach Execute Migration with a holistic approach Optimization for performance, ROI, or cost Assessment of environment Prescriptive guidance in place for DevOps / SRE / Cloud Architect teams

23. AWS Purpose-built Databases Relational Referential integrity, ACID transactions, schema- on-write Lift and shift, ERP, CRM, finance Ledger Complete, immutable, and verifiable history of all changes to application data Systems of record, supply chain, health care, registrations, financial Key-value High throughput, low latency reads and writes, endless scale Real-time bidding, shopping cart, social, product catalog, customer preferences Document Store documents and quickly access querying on any attribute Content management, personalization, mobile In-memory Query by key with microsecond latency Leaderboards, real-time analytics, caching Graph Quickly and easily create and navigate relationships between data Fraud detection, social networking, recommendation engine Time-series Collect, store, and process data sequenced by time IoT applications, event tracking AWS Service(s) Common Use Cases Aurora RDS QLDB DynamoDB DocumentDB ElastiCache Neptune Timestream Keyspaces Managed Cassandra Scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra-compatible service Wide Column Build low-latency applications, leverage open source, migrate Cassandra to the cloud

24. Applications Modernization Development stack CI / CD Application logs / tracing M icroservices adoption Serverless adoption New innovative app New competitive app Analytics Modernization New data lake New data warehouse AI / ML New ETL / Dashboards Database Modernization RDBMS  NoSQL License-based  Open-Source Purpose-built database Higher performance Infrastructure Modernization Virtualization (VM)  Kubernetes (Containers) Infrastructure-as-code New cloud-native Infrastructure tools Cloud-native ways for HA / DR Implement Auto remediation Security Modernization Implement DevSecOps Cloud-native SIEM tool Cloud-native KMS New cloud-native firewall New cloud-native WAF Drift detection & Auto remediation Modernization Summary

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