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Google Cloud Database Migrations: Strategy

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Ready to move your databases to Google Cloud? This course provides the strategy. Learn to evaluate business drivers to overcome high on-premise costs and vendor lock-in. Use Migration Center to discover assets, analyze TCO, and build a phased wave plan. You’ll learn to choose the right migration path and identify the right Google Cloud solutions for your workloads. You'll leave with a data-driven business case and a clear roadmap, ready to win executive buy-in and lead a successful migration.

Syllabus

Frame your migration strategy

Introduction to database migration
The four-phase migration framework
Phase 1: Discovery
Phase 2: Strategy
Phase 2: Target selection
Phase 3: Detailed planning
Phase 3: Resilient design
Module 1 quiz

Portfolio discovery and strategic analysis

Phase 3: Detailed planning
Automated asset discovery
Validation and mapping dependencies
Total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis
Workload fit assessment
Group for wave planning
Module 2 quiz

Build the business case and roadmap

Build the narrative with Gemini
Visualize the migration journey
Define a Migration Center of Excellence (CoE)
Validation gates and risk mitigation strategy
Handoff to execution
Module 3 quiz
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