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Google Launches ‘Biggest’ Cloud Migration Program Ever: 6 Key Things To Know
Mark Haranas
Google Cloud’s new Rapid Migration Program combines Google products, resources and best practices with channel partners’ own cloud migration offerings aimed at accelerating cloud migrations faster than ever before. Here are six things every Google Cloud partner needs to know about RaMP.
‘Robust Inventory Of Tools’ To Help Automate Migrations
We’re making sure that we have a robust inventory of tools that help automate the most common migration scenarios.
We have a lot of our own tools that we’ve developed from Google Cloud. We have StratoZone to help discover what’s in the customer’s data center environments and do some TCO analysis on it. We have a tool called MFit, which looks at a particular application or server and assesses the fit for let’s say, containerization or some modernization. We have a tool that we launched a couple of weeks ago called the Database Migration Assistant, which will look at databases that a customer might be running in their environment and help them understand what capabilities they’re using and their fitness for cloud. We have a Storage Transfer Service.
So we have our own first-party tools. But we’re also making sure that we are augmenting that with partners’ tools.
So we’re also inventorying all the third-party tools like tools that our SI [systems integrator] partners have developed. Like Accenture has a great set of tools they call myNav that they’re using in their customer engagements. Then we’re working with tooling partners who have their own tools to discover what’s in customers’ environments.
We’re really making sure we have one central location where our customers, our partners and our account teams can draw the right tools to help them automate scenarios in each customer they’re working with.
