3 Crucial Tips for Successful Cloud Migration

By Cloud Computing Outlook | Thursday, January 09, 2020

A successful cloud adoption needs a detailed blueprint as a single misstep may lead to chaos in the organization. Here are three vital tips to remember while adopting the cloud.

FREMONT, CA: Cloud migration and adoption has been the industry trends for some time now. While adopting or migrating to the cloud, organizations must be cautious of the process. Whether looking for a single workload, multiple workloads, or an entire portfolio, the adoption of the cloud requires more than just the knowledge of the technology. A successful cloud adoption needs a detailed blueprint as a single misstep may lead to chaos in the organization.

Therefore, it is advisable to follow a prescriptive approach while implementing the cloud program that streamlines the transformation, accelerates time, and reduces any risk in the process. Here are three vital tips to remember while migrating to the cloud.

Know Why to Move to Cloud

Every organization must ask themselves a question, "Why do we need to move to Cloud?" The answer to this question points out the need to move to the cloud and also why it is so necessary. Unless there is any compelling reason, all the data must be transferred to the cloud as a cloud-first strategy. This gives a clear idea of what should be kept on-premise and what should be moved to the cloud, and the result thus obtained is the best as there is no compulsion of migrating entirely to the cloud.

Establish Cloud Business Office

Cloud adoption has its own impact on the journey of the company. In some way, it evolves a new process and, in some way, buries old. This has made it easier for developers to create and modify the infrastructure requirements using the software. Till now the software development has experienced only a static environment where the business impact has created a tight control process and long approval cycle. A cloud business office changes them all and works according to the new requirements.

Build a Minimum Viable Cloud

The most important tip for the adoption of cloud is adopting the concept of a minimum viable cloud (MVC). This concept is based on the idea of the minimum viable product. MVC is the initial point of the migration, which serves as the platform for the first production cloud that iterates and improves the process. AWS, Azure, and Google all permit automation programming as the basic means to build the new platform. Therefore, the cloud must be regarded as a new piece of software.