Transitioning digital assets, comprising data, workloads, IT resources, and applications, requires meticulous attention to detail. This approach ensures the smooth execution of tasks like rehosting (lift and shift) or application migration. Adopting these strategies allows your business to seamlessly migrate its current infrastructure, safeguarding an exceptional customer experience and preserving financial outcomes.
If your business wants to grow without changing its current setup, you should think about using cloud migration. This process follows industry rules and guidelines. It involves moving tools and data from old systems or on-site data centers to the cloud. We made security and productivity a priority to protect your business from disruptions and costly mistakes.
Begin with a Strategic Vision
Do you have a strategy? Lacking a clear strategy could spell cloud sprawl or a breakdown of properly monitoring and managing individual cloud instances. The biggest threat to your business is not having a clear understanding of your data environment and security weaknesses. Even human error could easily derail your company’s efforts to move cloud-based infrastructure to a service provider.
The 7Rs of Cloud Migration to Optimize Your Business
When considering your IT portfolio, you must use these seven strategies for cloud migration in combination or independently. To choose the best option for your enterprise, you need to understand the complexity of applications in your business.
1) Retire
After examining an IT system, the enterprise often finds unnecessary elements, replaced software, or unused items in its portfolio. Retiring or decommissioning these elements means a boost in savings by no longer needing to run and maintain them.
2) Retain
This means choosing not to take any action and instead opting to revert to products that do not have cloud capabilities. These products should still function properly on your own property. Accept this limitation and move forward when your business has more experience.
3) Relocate
Move an application to the cloud without making changes or buying new hardware, if possible, for easier management and cost savings.
4) Rehost
When an application moves from its own IT environment to a shared one, we call it ‘lift and shift.’ It’s a fast solution that saves money and usually doesn’t need much rebuilding.
5) Repurchase
Also known as ‘shop and drop’ or ‘drop and shop.’ An old application that won’t change might require finding and purchasing ready-made software. Moving SaaS (Software as a Service) can turn a simple software investment into a costly move.
6) Replatform
Lift, tinker, and shift. Make changes where you can. This can mean new code or security and functionality fixes where applicable. Core application architecture will not change in platform strategy.
7) Refactor
You might need to change or rewrite the code completely to make it suitable for the cloud. Moving to the cloud is beneficial for enhancing an underperforming application and aligning it with business objectives. Considering migrating to the cloud is a good idea for improving the performance of an application. By doing so, you can ensure that the application works better in line with your business goals.
Cloud Migration Might Be The Biggest (and Best) Move You’ll Make
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