Moving to the cloud can be a daunting task that many simply do not feel ready to face. However, in todays increasingly digital world and post Covid, a lot of companies have accelerated their digital transformation journeys in order to become or remain agile, adaptable and innovative even in the most unexpected of circumstances and they have done this via a move to the Cloud.
Determining what exactly to move to the cloud and the order to do it in can be challenging - particularly if you have a complex environment. Here are some common types of infrastructure that can be put into the Cloud.
Many organisations choose to utilise the cloud for primary storage, backup and archival data to improve scalability and disaster recovery.
Dev & Test environments can be moved to the cloud for flexibility, cost savings and rapid scaling.
For companies with customer facing applications, a move to the Cloud can significantly improve the performance, reliability and user experience of said applications.
Use cloud-based VDI for secure, remote access to desktops and work environments.
More and more companies re opting to move their security to the cloud because it offers advanced, up-to-date protections like threat detection, encryption and identity management, which are continually monitored and updated by the cloud providers themselves rather than being the responsibility or the user organisation. It also centralises security management across applications and devices, making it easier to enforce policies and respond quickly to incidents.
A move to the cloud, wholly or partially of the above components can and does lead to benefits such as improved flexibility, operational efficiency improvements, cost reduction, immediate access to data and reporting, centralised data repository, scalability and much more. In order to see these benefits however, it is critical to plan your move to the Cloud with care, precision and tangible, measurable outcomes.
As with most projects, the first step is to map out the outcomes you would like to achieve by moving to the Cloud. It may be to lower cost, by getting rid of old, legacy servers, it may be to reduce duplication across the business by having one singular data source or it may be that you want to give your customers a better experience - you need to understand your reasons so you can measure them at a later date.
The next step is understanding how you can achieve these outcomes and what elements they will involve - is it all of the applications you currently use that will contribute to these outcomes? Is it a few? Or, is it none of them and you need a whole new set of applications to achieve your outcomes? It is useful at this stage to rank your applications/data etc to determine which are going to be easier to move, and which are going to be more difficult or even impossible. This can act as a priority list.
Next, you need to determine how you want to deployment method you are going to use. There are generally three options -
Hybrid Deployment (combination of multiple settings and Data Centres. It allows you a combination of on premises data centres and private or public clouds)
Multi-Cloud Deployment (Multi-cloud deployment is the usage of different public cloud computing infrastructures. For instance, you combine apps from many cloud service providers with redundancy and backup features)
Or, Single cloud Deployment (A single-cloud deployment is an option for smaller companies that only need one product line from a cloud provider. Although this type of cloud migration deployment may be the simplest, it also has the most limitations)
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