The cloud migration journey not easy to navigate for most, and there’s a lot of planning and questions to address to ensure the smoothest migration path and best possible outcome. As a specialized migration provider who has performed thousands of migrations, we have compiled a checklist to help guide you through your cloud migration.
With the growth of cloud adoption, the hybrid cloud strategy is attractive for many enterprise-level organizations that know they need to make the move to the cloud but have been reluctant to due to where they might be on their IT journey or concerns surrounding security.
It’s hard to find an organization at the enterprise level that has not yet breached the cloud; however, many small and mid-sized businesses have yet to adopt. For those that haven’t made the leap, getting their cloud migration strategy right the first time is the key to satisfaction. No one wants to be a part of the other 73% of people who were frustrated with the results of their cloud migration strategy.
Though it may seem the cloud computing may be only for the “big guys” due to enterprises adopting the cloud at a rapid pace, ignoring the many benefits of the cloud for small and mid-sized businesses severely discounts the game-changing advantages that level the playing field for SMBs.
"Lift and Shift" traditionally is a fit for applications already running in the cloud or an existing virtualized environment that can be imaged and brought over "as-is" without major programmatic, configuration changes or application related changes.