| Although the business will migrate to the cloud platform (digital transformation and simplify your IT environment) are easier than ever, but it can be a challenge. To simplify this process, IT teams throughout the process needs to learn lessons to help companies of cloud migration process easy and efficient as possible and be successful. |
Today, many companies have to migrate data and critical applications to the cloud platform that has many advantages in terms of cost, security, flexibility and performance.
Experiences and lessons 1- understand why you want to migrate to the cloud platform
Many businesses a clear understanding of cloud migration will make the road to success. Lower costs, flexibility, scalability, data security, business continuity without the need for a backup plan, and since it is easy to share data and improve collaboration just some of the reasons cloud platform to migrate. How many related companies? Once the goal, we must assess the current infrastructure, and to determine the workload or application dependencies, to determine which applications will become a candidate for a cloud platform to run.
Note that the cost of the experience and lessons 2-
Business enterprises will typically migrate to the cloud platform is to reduce the cost of hardware and IT staff, but it has been simplified to some extent. For example, some applications provide more applications than any other ROI. Depending on various factors (from data storage to security services, computing technical training costs from testing and monitoring tools to the cloud), companies need to calculate some of the real scene to the cloud provider, first determine priority needs and then select a line with budget the high-performance platform.
Experiences and lessons learned 3- consider security
Move data to the cloud platform means that companies will control to the cloud provider. This may pose a risk, especially for public cloud running multiple client applications on a shared server. If the cloud computing provider fails cloud platform, it may be at risk *** or business interruption. Companies need to ensure that the deployment of security vulnerability scanning tools for cloud computing, backup critical data, applications, powerful data encryption, the establishment of the redundancy, and uses other security solutions based on cloud computing.
Experiences and lessons learned 4- to know which application should first move to cloud platform
To determine which applications are most suitable for cloud migration, key factors need to be assessed, production status, operational standards, ease of compliance, migration, as well as business impact and so on. The lower if the criticality of an application, sensitivity, Advanced Level, the more its documentation, the lower the compliance requirements, this application is more suitable for the initial migration. Also, look for application dependencies, and then migrate these services (usually internal services, external services or close customer service), and the first to use the application with minimal dependencies.
Experiences and lessons 5- employees ready
To achieve successful organizational change (ie, cloud migration), companies will need to have solid skills developers, managers and staff in new technologies, processes, design and operation principles involved in cloud computing. Senior external consultant with extensive experience of migration may be the best person to train staff. In addition, companies also need a "Migration Architect" (with a system architect level) to lead, plan, develop strategies, make decisions, and complete the entire migration process.
Experiences and lessons 6- to determine the required migration options
There are some business migration options. When it comes to migration policy, companies can re-hosting, reconstructed or rebuilt. Many organizations start from re-hosting, also known as "lift and shift", it uses the infrastructure as a service to migrate existing applications without the need for costly code changes. When it comes to the type of cloud platform may be selected public cloud, private or hybrid cloud.
Experiences and lessons 7- appropriate choice of cloud provider
All companies need to obtain support for its cloud migration projects, beginning with its support from an experienced provider of cloud computing. When making the selection, the ability to understand cloud computing provider's experience level and provides the following functions: a tool to simplify the process, the method of computing support environment for any type of any size cloud, outdated processing technology, strict system structure, complex applications, workflow dependencies, migration support during and after the migration, and other issues.
Experiences and lessons learned 8- ready to measure success
Cloud computing for the enterprise to establish key performance indicators to show the progress of cloud migration, reveal obvious or application can not see the problem or complexity, and provide guidance for enterprises throughout the process. Once the goals to be achieved, the key performance indicators of enterprises can experience from infrastructure to the user through a series of categories and then to evaluate program performance of cloud applications to measure the success of the enterprise at the end of the journey to cloud computing.
Consider the complexity of the applications when the experience and lessons 9- Cloud Migration
When the application is switched from the conventional premise to the cloud platform, consider the architecture of the applications and data. So in the end how complex? Businesses can choose to migrate all at once or the entire application to the cloud service platform, to see that it works correctly, and if so, then the local traffic to the cloud platform. Alternatively, companies can do this: only a small part of the customer to migrate to the cloud, to determine whether the normal operation of the process, to perform these operations in the same order, until all customers have shifted to the cloud platform so far.
Experiences and lessons learned 10- optimize cloud migration
Migrating to the cloud did not take advantage of the performance and cost-saving advantages of a waste. One advantage of cloud computing is to optimize resources, companies have a responsibility to let the IT team to allocate resources for its proper application. And the correct application of cloud computing resources for the best match between cloud computing investments business efficiency and the best possible return.
Move your business to the cloud platform without spending a long time and does not require complicated process. Digital transformation is a huge reward for those winners, the action and make it as efficient as possible.