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What Is A Cloud Migration Strategy?

Team Hypershift · April 1, 2024

A Cloud Migration Strategy & Why it Matters

A faulty migration to any cloud solution can prove expensive, time-consuming, and harmful to an organization and its customers. By contrast, a well-executed migration can help increase revenues and lower operating costs while future-proofing additional products and services.

Before beginning a cloud migration journey, SMBs should address three critical concerns:

  • Have an apparent reason your organization wants to migrate to cloud-based services
  • What cost optimization and savings are expected from moving from premises infrastructure to cloud?
  • Do you have experienced resources with cloud engineering, security, and operations expertise?

Several well-regarded organizations suffered significant setbacks due to faulty cloud modernization projects. Healthcare.gov's Affordable Care Act website launch faced multi-cloud approach challenges, while Knight Capital experienced a "$440 million loss for the firm in just forty-five minutes" due to incorrect algorithms in cloud-based trading software.

Top 4 Cloud Strategies Supporting a Seamless Migration Experience

Rehosting - Port existing on-premise applications into Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings with little or no changes to leverage better computing, storage, and elasticity.

Redeploying - Move existing applications from on-premise physical servers into virtualized platforms hosted in the cloud, increasing compute, memory, and storage capabilities.

Refactoring - Create brand new applications based on cloud standards when current applications cannot successfully port to cloud environments without introducing vulnerabilities.

Retaining - Keep legacy applications operational within original environments to meet regulatory compliance mandates and reduce potential downtimes.

Taking the First Step in Cloud Migration

After addressing immediate concerns about migration timing and methods, evaluate managed security service providers (MSSPs) for planning and execution assistance. MSSPs bring experience across all cloud migration approaches and offer post-migration monitoring, reporting, and 24x7x365 operations support.