License Impact on Platform Migrations
Understanding the impact that vendor software licensing has on platform migrations is critical. Unfortunately, public cloud, and hardware manufacturers, resellers, and integrators do not have enough understanding of vendor licensing to provide that guidance. Opscompass can help.
Before, During, and After a Migration
If software vendor licenses are not accounted for in your platform migration planning, you run the risk of millions of dollars of fees for being out of compliance. Furthermore, not considering the vendor license impact may skew your ROI analyses to be far worse than anticipated. Opscompass helps you analyze your current-state license compliance, create future-state compliance models, and then monitor for compliance throughout the process.
Before the Migration
While creating your future-state platform strategy, a vital consideration is the vendor software licenses that you will be part of the process. You must understand if you are in compliance in your pre-migration state so that you do not propagate costly mistakes to the new environment.
Opscompass monitors your current-state so you know precisely how many licenses you have available during the migration. Creating a model of the target platform, with the licenses that will be migrated, will help you calculate the true ROI that you can expect from the strategy.
During the Migration
During the implementation of the migration, you need to continue to monitor for license compliance. A migration has the possibility of doubling or even tripling your license usage. Being caught with a vendor audit during this expanded use could result in a financial disaster. Opscompass will monitor your original platform, as well as the staging and target platforms for many conditions that might impact the risk and cost.
For the vendor licenses, especially, monitoring for compliance will give you the confidence you need to focus on a successful implementation. This is true whether you have excess license capacity, you will purchase temporary licenses, or you will stage license availability throughout the migration phases.
After the Migration
Software vendors often know about system migration plans. Because of this, many customers face a post-migration vendor audit to ensure they have not gone out of compliance. Opscompass will continue to monitor post-migration so that you always know what the vendor will find.
For the vendor licenses, especially, monitoring for compliance will give you the confidence you need to focus on a successful implementation. This is true whether you have excess license capacity, you will purchase temporary licenses, or you will stage license availability throughout the migration phases.
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