Three steps in the cloud migration journey – A center of excellence for cloud migration and operations.
- Strategy, assessment, and road map: A move to the cloud is far from just a technology exercise. It needs to be rooted in business outcomes—specific objectives the company wants to achieve.
- Assess business goals and develop a cloud strategy that will help the business get there.
- Determining which applications will be moved to the cloud.
- Type of cloud environment.
- What the infrastructure ultimately should look like.
- Apps with a variable load, are public facing with a global reach or are planned for a near-term modernization.
- Not Cloud: Too hard or risky to migrate or ones that just won’t provide the return on investment.
- Determining and doing an assessment at the outset is vital to a successful migration.
- Cloud transformation and migration: Here’s where the heavy lifting occurs—actually moving things to the cloud.
- Modernizing existing applications for the cloud.
- Developing new cloud-native applications.
- Transforming the architecture and infrastructure.
- Eventually creating an entirely new technology operating model and culture that enables the company to innovate more quickly, effectively and efficiently
- Automated management and migration tools deliver high quality,speed, consistency and resilience.
- Tools teamed with specialized skills and solution accelerators, become part of a automated cloud migration factory that can accelerate the journey even more.
- A robust cloud journey management plan to keep the effort on track.
- Cloud management and optimization: Simply moving to the cloud isn’t the end game. A company needs to also continually work to optimize what’s in the cloud to maximize its cloud investments.
Cloud migration journey is not easy, and it can come with its share of surprises for companies that are unprepared. You might need a Hybrid cloud strategy to start with and a reliable partner possessing the necessary tools.
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