I observed that these blog article, describing the physical to virtual conversion for ConnectEdu, an online leader in web education management, has brought many interesting responses. Appreciate it all with and sending feedback!
The replies were equally split between people questioning more information about internal IT migrations and external production environments. Herein I'm going to describe my knowledge about internal migrations from physical to SAAS (Software being Service) environments, in your next text Most definitely i'll concentrate on IAAS (infrastructure for a service) migrations.
The procedure of transferring internal physical systems to SaaS started after endless conversations with assorted vendors, with regards to the renewing of maintenance agreements on hardware (including HP servers, Blades, EMC Clarion, MS Exchange, and MS SharePoint). Also, I did to note costing out additional VMware licensing for your internal virtualized servers, which went from CPU to Core pricing.
It was after these conversations i always realized I've had enough. I deducted that many of us necessary to concentrate our technology efforts in creating the ideal software us could deliver and never have the IT business.
After a couple calculations I then seen that, by migrating completely to SaaS, I possibly could achieve ROI after as little as 10 months and eliminate 50 plus servers. This allows me no worries about internal hardware, software, or It is.
What did excellent artwork i just do?
- MS Exchange and MS SharePoint were used in an outsourced exchange provider (this became the roughest piece of process).
- Desktop backup now handled by SaaS partner.
- The accounting system was transformed into SaaS (I really didn't needs to be involved with this technique, mainly because it was handled exclusively by way of the CFO and his awesome team).
- 100 megabytes of fiber and redundant network connection were added.
- VMware instances were placed, with this specialized internal applications, on our external cloud environment. Expense of not upgrading VMware internally purchased these managed virtualized servers!
Benefits:
Just at least a year later I notice you that i am capable of sleep wonderfully in the dark. With redundant data pipes from two different vendors, and redundant T1′ s for the SAAS based phone system, security is already much tighter without any onsite data and access is locked down by firewalls and VPN connections.
Currently, all applications are hosted in SAS Level II facilities. We transformed the main town expenses to operational expenses as small as a monthly employee level and after this our ongoing monthly saving has finished 40%!
