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