Welcome to AWS Migrations Days

AWS Migrations Days have been built specifically for our enterprise customers, to help them address common blockers to a cloud migration journey, and move faster to realise the agility, resilience and cost optimisation cloud can bring to running enterprise applications.

During the day customers can select relevant sessions with customer stories and best practices on migrating large scale applications such as SAP, Microsoft, VMware to AWS.

These sessions are designed so that customers return to their business more informed on how to migrate, operate and modernise enterprise applications and build a future ready business.


Event Details

Sydney [Registration Closed]
Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Time: 8.30am - 5.15pm
Venue: Hyatt Regency, King Room 3, Lobby Level, 161 Sussex Street, Sydney NSW 2000 (view map)

Melbourne [Registration Closed]
Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2019
Time: 8.30am - 5.15pm
Venue: Crown Promenade, M1 Meeting Room, Level 1, 8 Whiteman Street, Southbank VIC 3006 (view map)


Agenda

*Being run the following day in each city is our AWS Cloud Journey Simulation Workshop which is optional to attend from 8.30am to 12.30pm. It is conducted by AWS Advisory Services, and leads a team through a 4‐hour cloud journey exercise to bring exposure to key decisions points during the first 2 years of your cloud journey. Please select your interest when you register.

Time Session
8.30am - 9.30am Building a Future Ready Business: Realising the value of your Cloud Migration
Hear from AWS GM of Migration Technologies AWS, former CEO TSO Logic, Aaron Rallo as he shares his perspective on how global customers have derived business value from their journeys to public cloud, and what differentiates AWS for the customer.
9:30am - 10:30am Accelerating Your AWS Migration Journey: Tools & Processes to Help You Make Decisions at Speed
In this session discover how AWS and APN Partner tools can help simplify your migration readiness and planning. Hear how customers have leveraged the AWS discovery and migration services to rapidly move workloads to improve resilience, reduce risk and accelerate their global footprint, and how these tools can be used for quick, effective decision making and planning in critical situations.
10.30am - 11.00am Morning Tea Break
11.00am - 12.00pm Customer Insights: Leading Enterprise AWS customer on migrating SAP to AWS
Why AWS is the best place to run Microsoft workloads
According to IDC, AWS run 57.7% of Windows Servers in the Public Cloud.  In this session you'll learn key benefits of running Microsoft workloads on AWS.  Key innovations, software licensing optimisation, options to reduce risk, reducing risk around End of Support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and how to save over 75% on your SQL Server licensing costs. 
VMware Cloud on AWS
According to Gartner, in 4 years 79% of all Enterprises  expect to use both on premise and public cloud infrastructure to meet their datacenter capacity needs. In this session you will learn how to escape the trap of capital investment cycles, reduce cloud migration risks and budgets & redirect valuable IT staff time and their skills while realising the benefits of hybrid cloud.
12.00pm - 1.00pm Lunch Break
1.00pm - 2.00pm Customer Insights: John Holland Group on migrating Microsoft to AWS
2.15pm - 5.15pm Migrations Blockers Breakout Sessions (3 sets across Afternoon) with 15mins between sessions and afternoon tea break
2.15pm - 3.00pm
3.30pm - 4.15pm
4.30pm - 5.15pm
Building the Business Case for Migration
Like any major technology project, the migration to the cloud requires a solid commercial justification in order to proceed. In this session, we will step through the methodology of building the business case for migration, breaking down the key components and levers required to quantify the commercial impact of moving to AWS.
AWS Partner perspective on the truth about cloud migrations with methods to guarantee success
Sydney - Sourced Group
Melbourne - Versent
Why you should prioritise Training and Certification as a critical part of your Migration journey
Join and learn why investing in training and certification is critical to the success of your migration investments to AWS Cloud. We will share with you how other Australian enterprises have implemented comprehensive training programs for their business and IT teams. You will learn how AWS can assist your organisation to develop and execute a well-defined training plan.
Make Security a Positive Choice on AWS
Avoiding The Stall: Operations Matters
Gartner says infrastructure operations skills gaps will disrupt 75% of organisations by next year. According to 451 research, 39% migrate a workload out of cloud due to post migration pain, and the industry is over-indexed on migration. How effective you are at supporting cloud readiness in the transformation journey is the key to capturing value for customers and partners alike.
2.00pm - 5.00pm Optional: Reserve an Office Hours 1:1 Session (30min slots)
  Getting Started - How to migrate your first application
Microsoft on AWS
Migrating with VMware
SAP on AWS
Sourced Group Sydney
Versent Melbourne

 

Registration Closed