We know cloud migration

Cloud migration is a multi-phase process that includes assessment, planning, migration, and optimization/modernization. A holistic, end-to-end migration program helps organizations lower risk, control costs, and simplify the path to cloud success.

Organizations have several options when beginning the cloud migration process.

A thorough checklist can provide a roadmap that organizations can follow to ease the migration to the cloud. A checklist can include the following items and more.

• Define the resources and capacity of applications

• Create a list of applications, who uses them and how often

• Identify key stakeholders early in the process

• Determine which applications are cloud eligible

• Specify security and compliance requirements

• Pick a strategy for each application

• Design cloud infrastructure such as compute, networking, security, storage, etc.

• Identify the capabilities of the workloads that will be migrating

• Create migration plans for apps and their data

• Devise a testing strategy before beginning migration

• Test data migration and synchronization

• Validate security controls

• Document necessary changes to be done as part of the migration

• Plan the time for application cutover

• Migrate according to the plan for each app, workload, and instance

• Migrate in stages, executing each wave, then validating in the cloud

• Apply lessons learned from one way to the next wave

• Monitor application and cloud usage

• Optimize user experience

• Monitor cloud costs and adjust as needed

• Upgrade apps and systems to more modern solutions, like PaaS or SaaS