ANDY SMITH

As a global senior technology and business executive, Andy has over 25 years of broad-based successes that include application development and IT operations & manufacturing leadership for multi-billion-dollar healthcare, supply chain, hospitality, and government companies.

At Penon Partners, Andy leads the Global IT Operations Excellence Consulting offerings.

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Hybrid Cloud Strategy Implementation​

Context

A $21B privately held company decided to begin implementation of a hybrid cloud strategy to utilize both AWS and Azure. This required analyzing hundreds of on-prem applications, database services and several thousand workloads (VMs). The objective was to create a reusable set of reference architectures, automations and methodologies that their delivery teams could utilize to both migrate existing on-prem workloads and accelerate the deployment of new workloads into the clouds.

Accomplishment

Performed Application Analysis
  • Identified common architectures and platforms
Built New Hybrid Cloud Environment for AWS and Azure
  • Identified and designed Security Requirements
  • Designed reusable Reference Architectures for identified common architectures and platforms
  • Developed reusable Landing Zones and Terraform Automation
Migrated Pilot Applications to AWS and Azure
  • Developed Business and Technology Scoring Methodology and Cloud Decision Tree 
  • Identified pilot applications using scoring methodology
  • Designed the solution architecture for each application
  • Mentored the customer as they executed the pilot applications

Outcome

This project provided the customer with a solid foundation that they could use to complete the journey to their Hybrid Cloud.  Deliverables included: Reference Architectures, Security Requirements, Landing Zones, Terraform Automation, Scoring Methodology, Solution Architectures, and hands-on experience executing migrations to both AWS and Azure.