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Creating a Cloud Migration Plan

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Creating a strategy and developing a plan are similar processes. But when it comes to cloud adoption, a cloud migration plan and a cloud migration strategy involve different steps and tasks to achieve the desired result: a successful move to the cloud.

Explaining Cloud Migration Strategy

The difference between a cloud migration plan and a cloud migration strategy is that the strategy involves selecting the right cloud-based solutions and infrastructure you need for your business while a cloud migration plan requires developing a thorough migration process to implement the solutions successfully.

It’s crucial to create a cloud migration strategy before moving on to a plan to give you a deeper understanding of how a cloud environment benefits your business. This will help you select the right cloud-based infrastructure and applications.

Designing a Cloud Migration Strategy

Think of a cloud migration strategy as an outline to examine how your business benefits from a cloud environment, helping you decide if a cloud solution is right for you.

Here are 10 tips for designing a detailed cloud migration strategy that will align with your cloud migration plan if you decide cloud services are right for you:

  1. Create an Executive Summary
  2. Determine a Cloud-Computing Baseline
  3. Define Your Business Baseline
  4. Design a Hybrid Strategy
  5. Identify Financial Roadblocks
  6. Adopt Principles
  7. Make an Inventory List
  8. Consider Security Options
  9. Align With Business Objectives
  10. Develop an Exit Strategy

Four Essential Migration to Cloud Steps

Once you’ve determined that cloud solutions are the right fit for your business model, there are four essential steps for a seamless move to the cloud.

Plan and Prepare

The first step to plan and prepare for your digital transformation is to create a comprehensive analysis of your company and the existing applications it operates on. During this phase, it’s common for business owners and cloud migration specialists to create transition solutions to prevent potential migration problems that may arise.

Portfolio Roadmapping

The next step for a successful cloud migration plan includes creating a roadmap that analyzes various dependencies your existing applications may have to develop a method that prevents unexpected migration obstacles. Application codependency often depends on the complexity and significance of your existing applications, so creating new methods and testing them on nonessential applications is a best practice.

Application Design

This step involves focusing on applications individually and considering methods for migration. Designing the right migration process for your applications often includes implementing one of the six R migration strategies, such as repurchase, rehost, or refactor. You’ll select one of these R strategies during the cloud migration strategy phase—this step is about transferring your traditional applications to a cloud environment using one of the R strategies.

Advanced Operating Model

The performance quality of any cloud-based infrastructure depends on the platform it’s operating on. That’s why it’s critical to ensure that your cloud-based system uses advanced, modern technologies. Testing your operating model is the last opportunity to update and make changes to your system before beginning operations in your new cloud environment.

The Tridius team can help you develop a detailed cloud migration plan for your business. Contact us today to learn how we can help with your cloud adoption.

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Benefits of Migrating to the Cloud

There are a wide range of benefits to cloud migration, such as:

  • Reduced hosting costs: Once you move to a cloud solution platform, you eliminate the cost of data center management.
  • Agility and scalability: Cloud services automatically scale based on your growing business needs.
  • Improved footprint: Cloud adoption only uses the energy and resources you need to run your business operations.
  • Disaster recovery: Modern cloud environments often include a strategic disaster recovery and data backup plan.
  • Data security: Cloud-based infrastructures offer better security than traditional data centers because they store your business information and applications centrally.

A Migrating to the Cloud Checklist

Once you’ve successfully migrated to the cloud, there are several boxes you should check for post migration.

First, train your staff on your cloud-based infrastructure so they have a clear understanding of how to perform their job duties. Classroom and online training are best practices to reduce downtime.

Next, consider security and access management needs, such as unified policies, security measures and data backup. You should also consider a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) to log information regarding user interaction with endpoints. A CASB provides visibility, limits access, and monitors your system.

Then, establish cloud key performance indicators (KPIs). KPIs allow you to monitor your cloud platform’s performance by testing and measuring performance, diagnosing problems, and optimizing and retesting.

Develop a Cloud Migration Plan With Tridius

As an experienced cloud services provider, Tridius can help you develop a custom cloud migration plan tailored to your existing applications and future business needs. Offering seamless cloud integration is our specialty, and a wide range of industries depend on our expertise.

We recommend Microsoft Azure, a premier cloud solution management tool, for a variety of business systems. With Azure, you have all the resources you need to benefit from your new cloud service

Developing a customized cloud migration strategy and cloud migration plan allows you to successfully manage your business without any disruptions. Tridius’s managed services include a customized Azure strategy and plan designed and created by one of our experienced Microsoft technical professionals. We help you put both in place and assist with maintenance and management post migration. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you with your cloud migration plan.

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