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Migration is an essential part of any cloud, managed hosting or data About Rackspace center consolidation strategy. And behind every successful migration Rackspace is your trusted partner across cloud, strategy is a detailed plan that reflects the input of a team of experts. applications, security, data and infrastructure.

If your organization needs the freedom and efficiency that comes with •• A leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant a managed environment, combined with a white glove approach toward for Public Cloud Infrastructure Managed Service migration, our platform-agnostic migration expertise can help you get Providers, Worldwide there. Our approach to strategy, process and project management can •• 3,000+ cloud experts significantly reduce the complexity and stress around migrations of industry-leading platforms including: •• Hosting provider for more than half of the Fortune 100 •• AWS and Azure •• 20+ years of hosting experience •• VMware vCloud® Air™ •• Customers in 150+ countries •• OpenStack private and hybrid cloud Process Overview Our Process Assess & Analyze 1. Assess and Analyze Evaluate current workloads, Our primary goal is to help you mitigate the risk that comes with Migration Assessment Report any migration effort and limit the impact to production. So we start by evaluating your current workloads, physical and virtual server configurations, network topology, security and compliance requirements. Then we deliver a Migration Assessment Report Identify containing our analysis of your infrastructure. Apps, , storage, servers for migration 2. Identify Next, we identify applications, databases, storage, physical and virtual servers that are fit for migration. Then we identify the best-fit destination platform, based on the workload and a migration path in Plan accordance with SLAs, application dependencies, compliance and data Migration strategy and destination environment security requirements. Lastly, we deliver a report identifying the scope of your migration. 3. Plan At this point, we finalize your migration strategy and destination Migrate environment, prioritize move groups and develop a comprehensive Coordination and execution of migration Migration Project Plan. This plan will detail migration requirements, pilot migration, production migration, your post-migration test plan and cutover, and go-live processes. 4. Migrate We execute your migration based on the plan. We work with you to perform post-migration validation of applications, data and network Fanatical Experience™ accessibility. Finally, we perform cutover and go live. Experts on your side, doing what it takes to get the job done right. From first consultation Services Delivered Your Way to daily operations, Rackspace combines the power of always-on service with best-in-class Complex Migrations (10 or more servers) tools and automation to deliver technology We can move complex workloads efficiently and effectively. Before you when and how you need it. even sign a contract, we will help you formulate a sound migration strategy centered on best practices and designed specifically for your needs.

In some cases, we might discover that you have all the necessary resources to perform the migration yourself. And, if not — or if your teams don’t have the time — you can count on our experts to help you. Application Migration Given the right hosting provider, enterprises can adopt hosted and cloud solutions for greater flexibility and than ever before — while minimizing long-term costs and complexity. We’ll make sure you get the availability, security and customization capabilities your app requires.

Single Server Migrations In many cases, we can process sever migrations quickly and without the use of significant project management resources. End-to-end single server migrations include:

•• Assessment and recommendations •• Copy and restore of sites, databases and data •• Sync of sites, databases and files/folders •• Cut over and go-live

Email Migrations Offload the management responsibilities of an in-house email platform. We can help you migrate leading email solutions, including ® Office 365™, Exchange™ Server 2003 and, later, Apps/Gmail, GroupWise and many others.

Migration Execution When it’s time to execute your migration plan, we provide a dedicated program manager who coordinates efforts across our professional services, internal teams and your project manager. Our program manager oversees all phases of our migration methodology.

If migration concerns are keeping you from realizing the benefits of the managed cloud, contact us today. Your migration, whether large or small, can benefit from the help and attention of our experts, all of whom are committed to delivering Fanatical Support®.

Take the Next Step Let’s talk about how Rackspace cloud and migration expertise helps you achieve your goals.

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