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Cloud migration can be a paradigm shift for organizations, enabling scalability, agility, and cost optimization. Yet, due to a lack of proper planning, they risk facing hurdles, unplanned expenditures and workflow interruptions. That’s where CloudKeeper comes in—an end-to-end cloud optimization partner with a 10-step cloud migration strategy that helps ensure a smooth transition.
So let’s look at the roadmap and see how CloudKeeper can make the migration process easier for organizations across the world.
1. Assessment
The first step in this process is a comprehensive review of your current IT systems. Our experts at CloudKeeper will analyze your applications, workloads, and dependencies to define relevant cloud migration strategies. It identifies cost-saving opportunities and ensures cloud adoption aligns with business objectives in this phase.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- We perform a deep evaluation of your on-prem and cloud-based workloads.
- Offers a cost analysis that showcases potential cloud cost savings.
- Pinpoint risks and develop a plan to migrate that aligns with your specific needs
2. Planning
After the assessment is complete, the next step is to create a comprehensive cloud migration plan for your cloud migration. This involves choosing an appropriate cloud service model (IaaS, PaaS or SaaS), defining a timeframe for cloud migration, and establishing KPIs to track success.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- We create a tailored cloud migration plan according to your business needs.
- Ensures the least downtime by implementing phased cloud migration
- Rank applications in terms of complexity and business impact.
3. Rehost
Rehosting, or “Lift and Shift” is a way of migrating the applications to the cloud with modifications. This is among the fastest and cheapest methods that companies use to cloud-enable services that they want to provide immediately.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- Offers tools to automate cloud migration.
- It provides compatibility with the cloud infrastructure.
- Reduces interruptions to your operations.
4. Re-platform
Re-platforming requires only minor changes to applications to utilize the features of cloud-native architectures, resulting in improved scalability and performance while avoiding the pitfalls of complete redevelopment.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- Optimizes apps for cloud-native services (managed DBs, containers, etc).
- Increased scalability while lowering infrastructure expenses.
- Keep cloud security best practices in mind.
5. Repurchase
Repurchase in cloud migration means replacing an existing application with a commercial SaaS product. Instead of migrating or modifying the current app, you "repurchase" the functionality from a third-party cloud-native solution. Example: Moving from a self-hosted CRM system to Salesforce or HubSpot.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- We evaluate current licensing modeling and offer cost-effective options.
- Enables a shift to software solutions in the cloud
- Businesses experience little to no disruption.
6. Refactor
Refactoring refers to reconfiguring applications to take full advantage of cloud-native capabilities, resulting in long-term savings and efficiency.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- Assist in the redesign of applications for serverless computing, microservices, and containerization.
- Enhances application resiliency, scalability, and maintainability.
- Enforces compliance to cloud security and compliance standards
7. Retain
This strategy means keeping certain applications or parts of your IT infrastructure on-premises, instead of migrating them to the cloud. This could be because:
- The application is already performing well and doesn’t benefit from cloud migration.
- It’s a legacy system with compliance or regulatory requirements.
- It requires a major rework that isn't justified right now.
- There may be some workloads, for example, security, compliance, or latency-sensitive workloads) that may be better suited for on-premises.
- You plan to revisit the decision later as part of a phased migration.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- Regulates applications that need to remain on-prem.
- It's designed to make sure hybrid cloud strategies are applied in a cost-effective way.
- Offers integrating tips for on-prem/cloud environmental conditions.
8. Retire
Some of the applications eventually become irrelevant or obsolete. This means retiring these applications to eliminate unnecessary costs and simplify IT operations.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- It spots deprecated applications that should do not contribute anymore.
- It also helps consolidate and thus optimize IT infrastructure.
- Lowers licensing costs and operational overhead.
9. Training
Cloud migration must be followed by upskilling all employees. Training prepares teams to maintain the new cloud environment successfully.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- Hones in on hands-on training for IT teams and end-users.
- Teaches teams security best practices and management of the cloud.
- Provides resources for continued learning for skill advancement.
10. 24*7 Cloud Support
Once cloud migration is complete, post-migration support is key for maintaining cloud performance, ensuring cost efficiency, and resolving unexpected hurdles.
How CloudKeeper helps:
- Delivers 24/7 cloud support for troubleshooting on cloud issues.
- Perform constant monitoring and cloud spending optimization.
- Provides high availability and performance of cloud applications.
By following this structured 10-step approach, businesses can achieve a smooth, efficient, and cost-effective cloud migration. Each step ensures minimal disruption while maximizing the benefits of cloud computing, paving the way for long-term success.
FAQs on Cloud Migration
1. What is cloud migration?
The process of transferring data, apps, and digital assets from on-premises infrastructure to a cloud computing environment is known as cloud migration.
2. Why should businesses migrate to the cloud?
Companies move to the cloud in order to increase operational efficiency, scalability, cost savings, and security.
3. What challenges can arise during cloud migration?
Downtime, data loss, security threats, unforeseen expenses, and compatibility problems are typical difficulties.
4. How long does cloud migration take?
There are different factors that decide how long the cloud migration process can take. This includes the complexity of the program, the amount of data, and the migration approach selected.
5. How can CloudKeeper assist in cloud migration?
To guarantee a smooth transfer, CloudKeeper offers end-to-end migration help, which includes evaluation, planning, execution, and post-migration optimization.
6. What are the cost implications of cloud migration?
By removing hardware expenditures, cutting maintenance costs, and strategically managing cloud spending, cloud migration can result in cloud cost savings. However, it's important to note that achieving continuous cloud cost savings requires ongoing cloud cost optimization practices. Otherwise, the costs could end up exceeding those of your pre-migration setup.
7. Is cloud migration secure?
Cloud migration is secure if done properly. To safeguard sensitive data, CloudKeeper makes sure that encryption, access controls, and security best practices are followed.
8. What is the best cloud migration strategy for my business?
Your budget, current infrastructure, and business objectives will determine the optimal course of action. CloudKeeper can help adapt the strategy to your needs.
Your cloud journey starts here
Cloud migration requires re-architecting and optimizing IT infrastructure for increased cost agility and efficiency. While there is a proper method to approach the process, though, it can be more complicated than it seems. Businesses can make sure that risks are controlled and value is maximized during their cloud migration by using CloudKeeper's 10-step cloud migration plan. During the planning, evaluation, migration, and support stages, CloudKeeper provides a smooth, safe, and optimized cloud experience. With a good partner, organizations can easily attain cloud excellence, regardless of whether they’re prepared to migrate or want to improve their cloud strategy.
