Cloud Migration And Its Strategy

Cloud Migration Strategy 

    

NetApp facilitates cloud migration with cloud volumes and Ontap, an enterprise data management platform that uses native AWS, Azure and Google cloud services. Our cloud solutions simplify the migration process by providing tools that help you move and synchronize data. Both AWS and Azure offer integrated tools to support AWS cloud migration and Azure data migration but we will see how NetApp users can benefit from migrated services and features associated with cloud volumes in NetApp.

    

Migration to cloud platforms enables a company to scale its IT requirements based on its current requirements. In short, companies are shifting workloads to the cloud to improve operational performance, agility, workload scalability, and security.

    

Migrating data and applications to the cloud requires a set of tools that help to avoid common pitfalls. A good cloud migration strategy requires the use of cloud migration tools that make it easy to automate, streamline and move data from existing storage systems into the cloud. Many older applications, organizations and networks are not optimized for the cloud and need to be prepared to migrate with tools specifically designed for this purpose.

    

Cloud providers such as Azure, AWS and Google offer services to help organizations migrate applications to the cloud. Cloud migration solutions provide users with risk-free migration procedures to virtualize workloads and applications in the cloud environment while complying with compliance requirements. Migration services provide organizations with the tools, automation and expertise they need to safely migrate to and from the cloud.

    

For example, many companies migrate on-site applications and data from their local data centers to public cloud infrastructures to take advantage of elasticity, self-service delivery, redundancy and flexible pay-per-use models. A successful migration strategy addresses both the short-term goal of lowering hosting costs and the long-term goal of aligning better with cloud business objectives. By implementing a robust and well-designed cloud migration strategy, companies can benefit from lower costs, scalable solutions, safer environments, more flexible operations and better access to enhanced functionality.

    

Migration to the cloud is a complex process that needs to be adapted to the organizational technical, functional and operational needs. A migration strategy should take into account how workloads are shifted to and from the cloud, whether they stay on site and what new skills and applications are added to the cloud. It should also include risk assessment, budgeting and security, as well as the type of cloud (public or private) to which the workload is to be migrated.

Cloud Migration Strategy 

    

While some cloud migration initiatives begin with an equivalent replacement of existing solutions, most organizations need a more sublime approach to cloud migration that takes into account local fixed costs, legacy non-cloud systems, change management concerns and process reliability. Cloud migration benefits are universal and the goal of these benefits is to host applications and data in the most efficient IT environment possible based on factors such as cost, performance and security.

    

Many companies are moving their on-site computing infrastructure to the cloud center as part of their digital transformation strategy. More companies than ever are striving to shift their technological workloads to the public cloud. Organizations take a cloud-based approach, leveraging micro-services and APIs used by cloud providers (more in one) to deploy modern containerized applications and workloads.

    

Migration to cloud computing involves shifting operations and data from one cloud platform to another. The process of moving digital assets (data, workloads, IT resources and applications) to a cloud infrastructure is also known as the transfer of tools and data from old, old infrastructures (local data centres) to the cloud. Cloud migration means moving data and applications from a cloud platform or provider to another, a process known as cloud migration.

    

Cloud migration is the process of moving into the cloud a company's digital assets such as services, databases, IT resources and applications. Cloud migration is a process that transfers digital assets (such as data, workloads and IT resources or applications) to the cloud infrastructure.

    

A cloud migration strategy is a high-level plan used by an organization to move existing on-site workloads or jointly localized application workloads and associated data to the cloud. Cloud migration is an example of a digital transformation initiative in which a company shares its data, applications and workloads by moving them to a cloud-based platform such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services. With cloud migration, a company shifts its data center functions to the cloud and runs on a cloud-based infrastructure from a cloud provider such as AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.

    

Every business has different reasons for shifting workloads to the cloud, and the goals of each organization will be different. When choosing the type of cloud migration for you is best for you, assess the data and applications your business plans to move and the cloud functionality your applications should have. Companies can move to a single cloud, multicloud or hybrid cloud by utilizing a single cloud provider, multiple cloud providers or single cloud approach. A single cloud approach is easiest to implement and is limited to the terms and options of your service levels agreements.

    

If your organization develops better capabilities, the difficult part of the migration of applications and traffic will be done. Such processes require careful analysis, planning, and execution to ensure that the cloud solution is compatible with your business needs. While some applications are suitable for cloud migration, many are not, and final disposition of hardware and data center assets should be considered as a factor in the overall plan.

    

In some use cases it may make sense to maintain some aspects of your IT services in their current environment and to implement a hybrid part of the migration strategy.