Cloud Migration
Migrate to the cloud and unlock endless possibilities for innovation, agility, and scalability.
The cloud is transforming the way businesses operate. By migrating your on-premises applications and data to the cloud, you can gain access to a wide range of benefits, including:
Reduced costs: The cloud can help you save money on IT infrastructure and maintenance costs
Increased agility: The cloud makes it easy to scale your IT resources up or down on demand, so you can quickly respond to changing business needs
Enhanced security: Cloud providers offer a wide range of security features and services to help protect your data and applications
Improved reliability: Cloud providers offer high-availability and disaster recovery solutions to keep your business running even in the event of an outage
80 + %
of companies have a multi-cloud strategy and a hybrid cloud approach
50+ %
of companies have these two top initiatives
1. Optimizing existing use of cloud (cost savings)
2. Migrating more workloads to cloud
32 %
of cloud spend is wasted
How to start – Avoid Failure with AG IT’ expertise
Why shift?
- Understand the trigger and remember it through the transformation
- Is it to, get out of a data center or make change easier or overcome application limitations? The “why” must be the North Star
Speed
- Run fast and regroup and clean up at key points OR do it once, do it slowly and then move on. Decide and understand the implications
- Start with looking for re-platform opportunities with core business applications, if speed is important
DevOps
- Cloud without the DevOps journey becomes limited, but cloud and DevOps journeys in tandem become complicated. How do you find the balance?
- DevOps isn’t about technology, it is about managing incidents and change
- How much automation do we want to put in place, so we’ve got automated CI/CD pipelines?
- Make your devops decisions with all the understood
Security teams
- If you make them an afterthought, they can be justified impediments to the program. Involve them early
Minimum viable cloud
- Define upfront security framework, operations Framework, automation Framework, core account Structure, and networking architecture
Database migrations and licensing
- For databases, the timeline and client licensing agreements makes decisions more often than technology. Understand them upfront and set expectations
Orphan applications
- Far too often have we seen applications with no documentation and the people that know about it have long been out of the organization
- Create the budget for discovery and code scanning tools
Cutover
- Focus on cutover from the beginning till the end, not just before it happens
Hire or train?
- We recommend both. From a, change management perspective, affordability, a retention of tribal application knowledge view and from an infusion of current tech awareness point of view
- Ensure you have a cloud first architect
Cost
- The cost can balloon on the cloud as DC replication isn’t the answer. Figure out what you need and switch those on as required
