Cloud Migration
Moving the application, data, and infrastructure from On-Prem to Public/Private Cloud
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Cloud migration involves moving data, applications, and infrastructure from company on-premises servers to public or private cloud platforms.
Many cloud migration strategies are available to implement the migration for internal and external clouds. Mainly, there are 7 R's of migration, and these are the seven most common approaches:
Rehosting (“lift and shift”) involves lifting the stack and shifting it from on-premises to the cloud. Organisations with conservative cultures that harness advanced cloud capabilities are the right strategy for rehosting.
Repurchasing is the most cost-effective option for moving from a highly customised legacy landscape. Purchasing the SaaS and Cloud-Native product helps relieve many burdens, gets away from legacy applications, and allows the application to run in more secure environments.
Retaining when the company is not ready to adopt the cloud for security governance and compliance reasons and cannot take data off from on-premises. In this case, plan to revisit the cloud at a later time. Sometimes, it makes sense to migrate only what the business needs.
Retiring Once the migration assessment for cloud readiness is completed, and you find out some applications are no longer needed, shut them down. The resulting savings might even boost the business case for applications ready for migration.
Refactoring/Rearchitecting means rebuilding the applications or infrastructure from the base. It is normally the most expensive option but also the most compatible with future versions.
Replatforming involves making a few further adjustments to optimise the cloud landscape. It doesn’t change the core of the applications. It is a good strategy for organisations that trust in the cloud while achieving benefits like serverless, auto-scaling, and system performance.
Relocate—This migration strategy involves relocating a proprietary virtualisation platform from on-prem to the cloud. This is perfect if the existing license of the on-prem platform is supported in the cloud and if you want to maintain low to medium operational complexity in managing the infrastructure, including VMWare VSphere platform migration to the cloud.
Benefits of Migration:
Reduce hosting Costs - Compute, Instance family and short and long-term purchased saving plans are available while purchasing in the cloud. Always buy only based on the business needs, including counting the seconds of the running workloads in the cloud.
Scalability and Agility—It is easy to manage from anywhere instead of on-site. You can increase or decrease the workloads (Scaling the capacity) based on the traffic or request, which helps to run only based on the needs and helps to run sustainable environments.
Decreased footprint - Auto-scaling and serverless computing help to zero-carbon for reduced environmental impact.
DRs - It helps more organisations implement backup and recovery solutions that take less time and upfront investment.
Security—Organisations can set the right security, governance, and compliance based on their needs. Cloud support reduces hassle-free environments and removes unwanted traffic from accessing your data by rolling out regular security updates. This frees you from security threats and takes care of what matters to your business.
Challenges of Cloud Migration:
The Cloud Migration process carries a certain degree of risk. Critical scenarios to be aware of include
Data loss (RPO)—When organisations move to the cloud, Their data is at its most vulnerable. Some of it might be unavailable or at risk of breach. Our talent teams ensure extreme care is taken to minimize breach risk by applying cloud security controls.
Downtime(RTO) - Migration might disrupt the in-house servers temporarily offline. However, outages could be disastrous to application performance and customer loyalty. We can support and ensure proper backup and resource allocation are set before running the RTO.
Resource Management - Cloud adoption requires some new IT skills or transforming the very backbone of your business operation. We can support your team to develop the skills in the cloud and give them well trained to get the confidence to migrate and run your workloads.
Interoperability—We have migrated more than 250+ containerised workloads from on-premises to various cloud providers, increasing productivity by 40% and reducing costs for our clients by 47%. So, Don’t hesitate to get a quote for your migrations and email it to info@telekomatrix.com.
Automation—Automate the complete Cloud migration, which helps team resources save time, increase productivity, and reduce repetitive task times, ensuring the best quality of products and infrastructure maintenance.
Conclusion Working with a Cloud Partner like us can help you succeed in Cloud migration challenges and give you confidence in migrating. Feel free to reach out to us or email info@telekomatrix.com. We are here to help.
