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How to Move Custom Application Developments to the Cloud

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Even if your custom application developments began at an on-premises data center, you can still make a seamless transition and take advantage of the cloud’s endless benefits. But first, you need to develop a detailed migration plan and select a cloud computing option.

Explaining SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS App Development

There are several cloud computing options available for migrating custom application developments to a cloud platform:

  • Software as a Service (SaaS): The most popular migration software for cloud services, SaaS’s web delivery model is a cost-effective way for a business to migrate to a cloud-based platform. Rather than installing cloud apps across a business’s entire network, experienced IT professionals use SaaS for specific operations and eliminate small, tedious cloud computing tasks.
  • Platform as a Service (PaaS): A step up from SaaS, PaaS offerings allow you to develop and customize cloud native applications for your business needs. You have the option to deploy it partially with a public cloud infrastructure, but it’s popular for businesses to keep their PaaS entirely onsite.
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): If you’re considering a strict public cloud migration, IaaS is the option for you. Significant enterprises, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, utilize this infrastructure solution because of its unlimited scalability. With IaaS, you can manage every aspect of your cloud platform, from applications and data to operating systems, using your preferred software.

Whether you choose SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS, continuously monitoring your applications in your cloud platform is a crucial routine to implement. Remaining proactive by monitoring and preventing issues from occurring helps maintain your business’s performance and limits the chance of disruption.

Migrating Custom Cloud Application Developments

Migrating your custom cloud application developments to a new cloud-based platform may seem like a daunting process. That’s why it’s a best practice to create a checklist for successful cloud computing:

Establish the Migration-Architect Role

A well-established cloud services provider can help you make a seamless transition to your new platform. When you hire a cloud-based consulting company to help you, they’re responsible for designing strategies for data migration, defining solution requirements, and determining migration priorities and operation switchover mechanisms. Whether you have a small or large migration project, hiring an IT expert to help you with the transition is essential for success.

Choose Your Level of Integration

When you move an application from an on-premises data center to a cloud platform, you can migrate with shallow cloud integration or deep cloud integration. Shallow integration involves little to no changes to the application before and after the migration. A deep integration involves modifying your application during the migration process to take advantage of key cloud capabilities once the migration is complete.

Establish Cloud KPIs

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are metrics gathered about your application or service to measure how it’s performing against your expectations. The best KPIs for a cloud migration show how your migration is doing, showcasing invisible or visible issues that may be happening within your application. Examples of cloud-based KPIs include user-experience, infrastructure, application/performance, and business engagement.

Set Performance Baselines

Set a baseline metric for each KPI you want to measure, determining how long you will collect data to analyze the baseline performance. Choosing a short-term baseline, such as one to two days, allows you to move faster, but you risk not collecting enough data to get an accurate baseline measurement. Selecting a longer period of time, such as one month, to collect data may take longer but you get better results.

Prioritize Migration Components

You also need to decide if you’re going to migrate your entire cloud app at once or migrate one component at a time. Start by determining which components of your application depend on other factors or services. In most cloud migration projects, it makes sense to migrate the application components with fewer dependencies first.

Create a Migration Plan

Use a prominent cloud data migration service, such as an option available from Microsoft Azure, and create a well-developed data plan for migration success. Ignoring details and failing to customize your migration plan can result in a failed process or a complex transition that doesn’t meet expectations. But developing a specific migration plan with an experienced cloud provider results in a streamlined process and minimized downtime.

Tridius will help you migrate your custom application development components to a cloud-based platform. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you implement a successful transition.

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Consider Tridius to Migrate Your Cloud Application Developments

Tridius’s strategic initiative to serve mid-market businesses drives us every day to deliver results you can count on. We manage technology needs for a variety of industries, such as finance, banking, legal services, accounting, healthcare, and entertainment. Our Microsoft Azure migration services include digital transformation, cloud strategy, application development, and managed services. By combining top-notch strategic consulting and world-class Microsoft engineering talent, Tridius is your premier solutions provider.

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