POINTS TO CONSIDER WHILE MIGRATING TO THE CLOUD
According to an ETCIO survey, 37% of enterprises planned to move anywhere between 25-50% of their workloads to the cloud last year. While cloud adoption is on the rise, implementation still remains a struggle for many enterprises. According to a RightScale research report, companies had the following concerns around cloud adoption:
- Lack of resources or expertise
- Security
- Compliance
- Managing costs
- Complexity
- Governance & Control
- Performance
So how can you execute a smooth transition to the cloud, while addressing these concerns?
Establish a detailed, step by step migration approach with the following elements:
- Have an IT assessment performed; thoroughly examining and understanding the present IT Infrastructure environment would be a good starting point to develop a migration strategy
- Work on a plan that preserves IT infrastructure investments already made and prepare a roadmap for upgrades and additions for the present and future needs
- Understand and define data security & privacy needs; this will help determine what can move to the cloud and what cannot
- Assess application compatibility, utilization aspects, platforms needed and availability needs
- Define operations management and monitoring needs
- dentify the right cloud architecture – private, public or hybrid
- Estimate and compare both technological features & cost effectiveness amongst different cloud options & choose the most suited
- Choose the most appropriate cloud orchestration methods to adopt
- Prepare a phased transition and test plan
It might be prudent to engage the services of a trusted and experienced solution provider, with the right skillsets, to assist with the entire migration process, end to end, and to provide post-migration operations support.
To understand how Precision’s Infrastructure Management Services can assist in defining & implementing your organization’s cloud migration roadmap, please write us at dm@precisionit.co.in or call us at +919176632573
