What is cloud migration?
Cloud migration is the process of moving a company’s digital assets, services, databases, IT resources, and applications either partially, or wholly, to Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, or other cloud providers.
Cloud computing has become an essential part of any organization, regardless of size or workload. It provides cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and reliable IT resources. Rather than maintaining their own private data centers, companies can use cloud storage to create storage as needed, increasing agility and lowering the total cost of ownership.
What are the benefits of cloud migration?
For companies that undertake the process of cloud migrations, the cloud can have a massive impact. Cloud migrations benefits include:
Enhanced Security
The cloud consists of networks, servers, and software solutions that must be configured and maintained securely by following the “shared responsibility” model. This means you are responsible for your part in cloud security. Never the less, your cloud solutions providers like AWS, GCP and Azure, take part of their “shared responsibility” and provide cloud solitions with security in mind.
High availability and reliability
By moving to cloud-based solutions, organization gains the ability to scale up or down your cloud infrastructure in response to business needs. On top of that, your cloud services are not affected by the failure of a few physical components or operational support.
Disaster Recovery
Cloud environment is almost data-loss resistant because cloud architecture makes it easy to store copies of data in multiple locations. With cloud migration businesses can easily and quickly access their data from the cloud without losing business continuity and productivity.
Cost savings
According to Datometry's survey of 166 IT executives, 61% of companies are moving their computing to the cloud to reduce costs. VMWare, a provider of cloud computing solutions, estimates that large organizations can save between 40%-50% of their traditional IT operating costs by transferring their in-house data center facilities to a public cloud service provider.
How does the cloud migration process work?
Cloud migration process can be a transformative shift for your entire business, so it’s wise to begin by taking an end-to-end look at the cloud journey. This will help to confirm which capabilities and activities will bring most business value.
Envision
This phrase helps you create a foundation for your cloud strategy that returns ongoing measurable business value, connecting your business goals and business outcomes to enabling technologies, and helping you with smooth transition during your cloud migration initiatives.
Align
Digital transformation workshop delivered by experienced consultants that will result in an executable roadmap. This phrase helps you determine what business benefits cloud adoption can bring to your organization, understand how key stakeholders needs, and establish business goals clarity to guide your organization's change management during the cloud journey.
Launch
Deploy the new cloud environment with proven methodologies and cloud migration solutions. Test cloud services it for its functionality, operational efficiency and scalability.