Steps to Successful BMC Helix Migration on Multi-Cloud

BMC Helix is a Multi-Cloud Service Management for seamless service management that can run on any public cloud because of its container deployment capability. The cognitive automation capabilities of Helix can increase the customer experience. We can get the data driven insights because of its complex reports generation capability.

To be able to migrate to multi-cloud, it is imperative to have a successful strategy that is crafted keeping the end-requirements in mind. Your migration strategy should take care of unexpected costs and security vulnerabilities.

Before moving ahead with the migration, here are a few things that you must keep in mind:

• Your strategy must be in line with the cloud platform that you are planning to migrate to
• You should map your cloud platform assets properly
• Make sure that your forecast the cloud expenses accurately before moving ahead
• While migrating to the cloud is fun and all, it is equally important to ensure your security and compliance with regards to the cloud architecture

1. Estimate the migration cost: Before going for cloud migration, first you need to estimate the cost of
   migrating to AWS, Azure, and other cloud platform services
   1. Simulate your migrations with sample data to AWS, Azure, and other cloud platform services and deploy
      the right resources like foundation data, transactional data, customizations, and integration
      configurations
   2. Align migration cost with business needs which includes different views and resources
   3. Optimize resource usage by identifying and deploying only the required services. The unused services can
      be dropped for deployment.
2. Plan your migration: To migrate your on premise BMC Helix to multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, and other cloud
   platform services) need to involve some experts. They can help you in
   1. Determine and analyze the gaps between the on premises and cloud solutions
   2. Rapidly assess your current cloud operational maturity in terms of people, process, and technology.
   3. Find out the business cases that can provide financial and operational benefit when we migrate to any
      AWS, Azure, and other cloud platform services
   4. Prepare a milestone for successful cloud service migration within the decided dates or deadlines.
   5. Get the expert advice on cloud operating models , procurement strategies, capacity optimization, vendor
      management etc.
3. Discover all your assets: Before going for migration on cloud, make the audit of all your data center,
   AWS, Azure, and other cloud platform service assets and it’s relationships
   1. Make the audit of inventory of all assets before deciding what to migrate to the cloud
   2. Check for data dependencies to ensure that nothing breaks after migration
   3. Need to ensure all assets and dependencies should be same for any on premises or in the public or
      private cloud
4. Check for security and compliance: Find out the security risk and compliance of cloud environment before
   migration. Fix the risk and compliance gaps on AWS, Azure, and other cloud platform before going for migration.
   1. Verify security and policy-based compliance of all production environments across AWS, Azure, and other
      cloud platform service
   2. Automate remediation to secure multi-cloud resources at scale
   3. Using Dashboard increase the visibility of security and compliance posture

If you are planning for BMC Helix migration, you should consider and go through the all above mentioned steps before migration to BMC Helix for a successful migration. Risk can be mitigated with all the above steps.