The Gotchas of Cloud Migration

Date posted: 16th October 2015

Cloud Migration is becoming more and more common for mid market and enterprise businesses. IT managers and business stakeholders are seeing benefits including shifting capital expenses to operating, increase agility and improved time to market.

IT leadership is well aware of the primary risks of cloud migration including sizing up security risks, reliability standards and scalability needs prior to migrating but what else should a business be concerned with when migrating to the cloud?

Here are some “gotchas” of mid-market business cloud migration from Netfast Cloud Managed Services

Be prepared for legacy system migration

IT leadership should decide on a re-build or re-config path for legacy systems and applications moving to the cloud

Don’t reuse old hardware

Build reliable private cloud using reliable components

Don’t start with something critical

Start with something small, don’t migrate a mission critical database, application or service until you are sure it is ready. Migrate slow and steady to ensure minimal business disruption.

Don’t over analyze

Start small and migrate slowly but start.

Make sure you have a strong network connection

Latency in the network can turn a successful cloud migration into frustration

Code efficiently

Developers should be able to deploy apps on the cloud or on-premises with similar performance

Hire the correct resources

Many IT departments are siloed in the old on-premises data center world. Security, infrastructure, servers, storage and network are all managed by siloes of power. In the new world of cloud it might be time to re-consider the best way to organize these roles as resources may need to be re-purposed or trained to handle the cloud.

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