Alvin Barnard, Presales Consultant at OpenText, featured on a panel at the MyBroadband Cloud & Security Conference 2023.<\/p>\n
Barnard has a demonstrable history of success working for the world\u2019s top companies in the ICT industry.<\/p>\n
These companies include HP Software, Micro Focus, and CA Technologies \u2014 which is owned by Broadcom.<\/p>\n
Barnard is highly skilled in Systems Management, IT Service Management, presales, ITIL, and automation.<\/p>\n
These skills and his excellent work ethic have made Barnard a key part of the OpenText team.<\/p>\n
On the panel, Barnard explained the process of migrating to the cloud in the most optimal way for your business.<\/p>\n
He said the first step of a successful cloud migration is discovering all of your resources \u2014 both in terms of hardware and software.<\/p>\n
He highlighted the example of the University of Milan, which worked with OpenText-owned company Micro Focus to discover 150 servers on its campus.<\/p>\n
Micro Focus also helped the University of Milan to update over 100,000 of its hardware and software configurations in just a few months.<\/p>\n
Barnard stressed the importance of consolidating these resources into a single portal that provides visibility of all your important business data.<\/p>\n
Next, you should analyse these different resources and determine the best solution for each.<\/p>\n
This could be:<\/p>\n
When making this decision, you must compare costs with business outcomes.<\/p>\n
For example, applications that are not business-critical are often good candidates for either retention or retirement, as the cost of the other \u201cre\u2019s\u201d would not provide enough tangible business value.<\/p>\n
Once you have decided on the appropriate solution for each application or resource, you can execute them to generate tangible business value.<\/p>\n
Barnard cautioned against using inexperienced migration partners throughout this process as it presents an unnecessary business risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimple mistakes or miscalculations can cause huge issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best migration teams will implement robust permissions systems in your backend to ensure that these mistakes don\u2019t happen, and nothing is exposed that you don\u2019t want to be touched.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once you have deployed your new multi-cloud environment, the next step is managing your different applications across their various locations.<\/p>\n
This can be extremely challenging if you don\u2019t have the right tools, but he said it is far more straightforward when working with OpenText and Micro Focus.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf your content is sitting in different applications, and you\u2019re reliant on different vendors, you cannot achieve sufficient internal management,\u201d said Barnard.<\/p>\n
The cost of this is significant, Barnard added, highlighting that poor operational processes can waste up to 30% of your cloud spend, and cost businesses on average $126,000 of revenue per hour of downtime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn contrast, by aggregating all of your cloud technologies into a single platform, you can easily pinpoint any issues as soon as they appear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barnard said the acquisition of Micro Focus makes OpenText the ultimate partner for all of your IT Operations Management (ITOM) needs, as OpenText can now combine its industry-leading solutions with the extensive catalogue of powerful Micro Focus tools.<\/p>\n
For example, Micro Focus Hybrid Cloud Management (HCM) and its workflow designer enabled Air France-KLM to boost productivity by 400%.<\/p>\n
Likewise, Micro Focus solutions enabled TurkTelekom to gather 30 different technologies as well as performance metrics, topology, and event detections into a single source of truth.<\/p>\n