7 Steps for Successful Cloud Migration Planning
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How and Why Cloud Migration Is Important
Gartner predicts that by 2025, 85% of enterprises will have a cloud-first strategy. Drivers are IT costs, flexibility, and efficiency.
It can be difficult to identify which applications could be migration candidates
These 7 steps are our recommendations to help plan and prioritize resources more effectively.
Step 1: Define Your Scope
Decide what is important, and establish clear metrics on effort, change impact, and time to value.
Step 2: Make Sure You Have the Right Data
Build an application inventory by gathering high quality data and specifying governance rules.
Step 3: Evaluate Your Application Portfolio
Determine the strategic rating of your applications by using business and technical measures to determine the value an application provides.
Step 4: Consider How You Are Going to Migrate
Take a look at your migration options, and ensure team alignment by involving key stakeholders like the CIO or CTO.
Step 5: Prioritize Your Migration Candidates
Narrow down your list of contenders and validate the recommended migration strategy.
Step 6: Conduct an Impact Assessment
See which action would work best by taking a closer look at the opportunities and assessing all aspects of the application to validate its eligibility.
Step 7: Present a Business Case and Execute
It's time to migrate and repeat. Cloud Migration is a continuous process. Execute once the business case has stakeholder buy-in.
Offset Common Challenges
Cloud migration is for the benefit of the whole organization. A thorough plan ensures that post-migration, the organization's applications are hosted to deliver a responsive, accessible, safe, and secure platform for customers to engage with.
