Learn How to Create Best Cloud Migration Strategy.pdf

1. Learn How to Create Best Cloud Migration Strategy What should be your Cloud Migration Strategy? Businesses need to take a close look at their current investments in infrastructure, from application portfolios to hardware to network architecture and beyond, to determine if a move will be profitable. Some of the questions related to migration are technical, like whether a particular app are capable of doing properly in the cloud, even though some questions involves budgetary, non-technical issues, like whether a cloud migration is cost-effective given currents investments infrastructure. The existing data canter investment of the organization is among the first considerations. There are actual expenses associated with deploying on premises servers despite technologies like server virtualization. The licenses costs are involved as well as cost associated with infrastructure and hardware resource consumption. Because of all this, a significant investment is nearly always associated with an on-premises server. Outsourcing the functionality and data of a server to the cloud could mean leaving behind the on-premises investment of the business unless the on-premises servers can be used again. This rip-and-replace solution to migrating to cloud may not make financial sense for organizations that have a huge investment in an on-premises data canter. An organization can benefit from migrating some on-premises data to the cloud. Any server hardware will finally become obsolete no matter how good it is. Traditionally, the enterprise-class organizations have coped with this obsolescence by adopting a hardware lifecycle policy. For example, a business might choose to retire servers after half a decade. A corporation could, however, integrate a cloud services roadmap into the lifecycle policy of its hardware. This enables IT teams to migrate on-premises resources to the cloud as an alternative to moving them into a newer hardware. Using cloud migration services is commonly better for companies, start-ups and organization due to their high security and low cost. The use of cloud services, in the case of smaller organizations, offers access to enterprise-class hardware. Further, cloud services offer fault-tolerant features that will be highly expensive, almost unaffordable. The start-ups can, similarly, profit by cloud services because they do their operations even faster without having to invest in on-premises data canter resources.