Journey to Cloud: The Importance of Modernisation & Migration

Migrating to the Cloud can feel overwhelming, and the concept of transforming what is being migrated to the cloud is quite difficult. This is because people are expected to move their existing processes and applications without changing anything.

While there are stability, cost, and other security concerns, successful cloud migration will not only improve efficiency but also minimize the risk of issues that can affect your business if you remain in a local hosting solution. While most senior management understands the importance of Cloud management, the problem is that many aren’t sure where to start.

Thankfully, at TIBERONE we can help figure out where to start by assessing your business from a holistic perspective and help plan your journey to the Cloud.

Benefits of Cloud Migration

Successful Cloud migration can significantly help you reduce the total cost of business operations while enhancing IT availability and quality of service. For instance, access to the Cloud helps meet changing consumer and market demands by adapting to become a digitalised workplace. This in turn helps to deal with an increase in online demand and remote working. Other benefits of Cloud migration include;

•        Increased agility and flexibility

•        Improved performance

•        Better consumption management

•        Ability to innovate faster

•        Cloud scalability

•        Easing of increasing resource demands

•        Simplified IT

•        Better managing of increased customer expectations

•        Reduction in costs

•        Deliver immediate business results

How To Implement Cloud

Before moving to the Cloud senior managers must understand what's involved. Since moving to the Cloud can be a complete shift for your entire business, it's wise to start by thinking about the results. This will help you understand the activities needed for the process to be successful.

Here are the main steps in the implementation of Cloud migration:

Define Your Strategy

Since a move to the Cloud is more than just a quick change in technology, it's important to root it in business outcomes and consider the specific objectives that you want to achieve. Once done you can develop a strategy to help you determine which applications you can move to and what type of infrastructure is needed.

Discovery and Assessment

In this step, you need to know what to move and where to move it. While businesses expect improved flexibility, cost, and control, anticipating how your applications might perform is very important. It's important to understand the current state and scan through the existing infrastructure. This way you can identify your current architecture and determine the most appropriate applications and data to migrate to the cloud.

Cloud Migration

This step involves modernizing existing applications and transforming the architecture and infrastructure. The aim is to move to a newer technology infrastructure while also encouraging a culture that innovates quickly.

Summary

There are numerous benefits of Cloud migration, both to your business and to your customers. With these benefits, you can create a solid foundation and deliver improved performance and innovative design in the long run. If your business needs increased security, optimized scalability, reduced costs, smarter integrations, and greater access to business-critical functionality, you should consider a Cloud migration. Thankfully, we can help assess your business requirements and drive modern solutions. Since our "Business Continuity" philosophy revolves around driving Quality of Service, Availability, and Capacity, we will ensure that we minimize risk by putting your business first.