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Cloud offers organizations the opportunity to run their workloads on physical machines at a reduced cost, with better overall performance and enhanced security. Yet engaging in a partial or total migration to cloud requires a solid, holistic strategy that focuses on technical and management challenges that will likely arise, and an organizational mindset that will help ensure the migration’s success. This introductory, vendor agnostic talk will highlight the technical, management and cultural considerations that every cloud migration strategy should consider, how to address some common challenges, and best practices to help guide the process.
CPN210 Defining an Enterprise Cloud Strategy - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
Few terms are more confusing than the term "cloud." While we've moved beyond the age of "defining the cloud," there's still a significant amount of confusion in understanding the role of the public cloud in an enterprise IT infrastructure. This presentation defines the elements of a mature enterprise cloud computing strategy that includes all components of a hybrid cloud, how to build out an integrated public/private infrastructure, and strategies for when and where to deploy new systems, and when it makes sense to migrate existing systems.
Cloud migration is a complex process and involves the process of moving applications, data and other business elements to a cloud environment. The organization should consider several factors while migrating to the cloud, from the immediate benefits to potential risks to long term advantages. A successful cloud migration should have a strategy that would address the benefits and risks involved.
The document discusses CloudZone's path to helping customers adopt AWS cloud services. It describes AWS' global infrastructure including regions and availability zones. CloudZone provides assessments, governance, workload reviews, and implementation to help customers migrate systems to AWS cloud. Ongoing services include cost optimization and managed services. Two customer case studies are presented: a Ministry of Health using AWS for big data healthcare research, and a manufacturer using AWS for worldwide connectivity of factory data collection.
This document discusses strategies for migrating applications to the cloud. It recommends a phased approach including assessing costs and architecture, building proof of concepts, migrating data, moving applications using a hybrid strategy, and optimizing in the cloud. Key considerations include existing technologies, people, finances, legal issues, and risks. A hybrid cloud approach allows flexibility while improving innovation, productivity, and reducing costs over time.
Cloud migration is the process of transferring databases, applications, and IT processes into the cloud, or from one cloud to another. Migration in cloud computing has become quite popular among organizations as it offers anytime, anywhere access. Read this practical guide to cloud migration to know more.
Cloud migration involves moving digital assets like applications and databases from a company's on-premise infrastructure to cloud infrastructure. There are several steps to a successful cloud migration including forming a migration team, assessing organizational readiness, choosing a cloud vendor and designing the cloud environment, creating a roadmap, choosing a migration strategy, migrating data, testing, and switching to production. Key risks of cloud migration include cost, loss of control, vendor lock-in, and potential performance issues. People, finances, and legal/compliance issues are also important factors to consider.
Cloud Computing can be so much more more than just a model for elastic workloads, cost reduction, capital preservation and improved IT efficiency. Cloud computing is evolving and had the opportunity to be a major driver for the enterprise in innovation and opening up new business segments and markets. But to achieve all this its imperative to have a mature and well defined 'Enterprise Cloud Strategy'. A strategy with the ability to consider additional and potential benefits as part of it's target state.
Cloud offers organizations the opportunity to run their workloads on physical machines at a reduced cost, with better overall performance and enhanced security. Yet engaging in a partial or total migration to cloud requires a solid, holistic strategy that focuses on technical and management challenges that will likely arise, and an organizational mindset that will help ensure the migration’s success. This introductory, vendor agnostic talk will highlight the technical, management and cultural considerations that every cloud migration strategy should consider, how to address some common challenges, and best practices to help guide the process.
CPN210 Defining an Enterprise Cloud Strategy - AWS re: Invent 2012Amazon Web Services
Few terms are more confusing than the term "cloud." While we've moved beyond the age of "defining the cloud," there's still a significant amount of confusion in understanding the role of the public cloud in an enterprise IT infrastructure. This presentation defines the elements of a mature enterprise cloud computing strategy that includes all components of a hybrid cloud, how to build out an integrated public/private infrastructure, and strategies for when and where to deploy new systems, and when it makes sense to migrate existing systems.
Cloud migration is a complex process and involves the process of moving applications, data and other business elements to a cloud environment. The organization should consider several factors while migrating to the cloud, from the immediate benefits to potential risks to long term advantages. A successful cloud migration should have a strategy that would address the benefits and risks involved.
The document discusses CloudZone's path to helping customers adopt AWS cloud services. It describes AWS' global infrastructure including regions and availability zones. CloudZone provides assessments, governance, workload reviews, and implementation to help customers migrate systems to AWS cloud. Ongoing services include cost optimization and managed services. Two customer case studies are presented: a Ministry of Health using AWS for big data healthcare research, and a manufacturer using AWS for worldwide connectivity of factory data collection.
This document discusses strategies for migrating applications to the cloud. It recommends a phased approach including assessing costs and architecture, building proof of concepts, migrating data, moving applications using a hybrid strategy, and optimizing in the cloud. Key considerations include existing technologies, people, finances, legal issues, and risks. A hybrid cloud approach allows flexibility while improving innovation, productivity, and reducing costs over time.
Cloud migration is the process of transferring databases, applications, and IT processes into the cloud, or from one cloud to another. Migration in cloud computing has become quite popular among organizations as it offers anytime, anywhere access. Read this practical guide to cloud migration to know more.
Cloud migration involves moving digital assets like applications and databases from a company's on-premise infrastructure to cloud infrastructure. There are several steps to a successful cloud migration including forming a migration team, assessing organizational readiness, choosing a cloud vendor and designing the cloud environment, creating a roadmap, choosing a migration strategy, migrating data, testing, and switching to production. Key risks of cloud migration include cost, loss of control, vendor lock-in, and potential performance issues. People, finances, and legal/compliance issues are also important factors to consider.
Cloud Computing can be so much more more than just a model for elastic workloads, cost reduction, capital preservation and improved IT efficiency. Cloud computing is evolving and had the opportunity to be a major driver for the enterprise in innovation and opening up new business segments and markets. But to achieve all this its imperative to have a mature and well defined 'Enterprise Cloud Strategy'. A strategy with the ability to consider additional and potential benefits as part of it's target state.
December 2014 Webinar - Planning Your 2015 Cloud StrategyRapidScale
By 2015, at least 20% of cloud services will be consumed through cloud service brokerages rather than directly. Security, cloud computing, and analytics are predicted to lead IT spending increases in 2015. Cloud projects and increasing IT budgets are also important trends for 2015.
RightScale Webinar: The Five Critical Steps to Develop a Cloud StrategyRightScale
With the advent of the public cloud, central IT has a mandate to not be left behind. Having an organization-wide cloud strategy is imperative for maximizing IT agility, while maintaining centralized control and mitigating “shadow IT”.
Your cloud strategy should be aligned to maximize your business value. The question is how? In this webinar we show our our five-step framework, based on helping over 1,000 organizations achieve cloud success.
You'll learn how to:
1. Identify your cloud motivations
2. Assess your current cloud maturity
3. Overcome the four common cloud challenges
4. Plan your cloud portfolio
5. Choose your cloud adoption pattern - Cloud First, Targeted, or Grass Roots
This document provides a guide for migrating infrastructure, databases, and applications to the cloud. It discusses why organizations are choosing to migrate now, including reducing costs, increasing flexibility and scalability, and improving security. The guide outlines Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework for planning and executing a cloud migration. It covers strategies for assessing the current environment, planning the migration, moving workloads to the cloud, and ongoing management after migration. The goal is to provide best practices to help organizations efficiently and successfully migrate to the cloud.
Cloud migration is the process of moving databases, applications, and IT processes from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. It requires preparation and advance work but results in cost savings and flexibility. Businesses choose between strategies like rehosting (moving to cloud servers), refactoring (reusing code on a cloud platform), rewriting code, or replacing applications with cloud-based software. They must also decide between hybrid cloud (mixing on-premises and cloud infrastructure) or multicloud (using multiple public cloud providers). The main challenges are ensuring data integrity during transfer and migrating large databases, while maintaining continuous operations.
Cloud Migration Checklist | Microsoft Azure MigrationIntellika
This checklist walks you through the steps to plan, assess, and begin your cloud migration, and offers resources to help you move to the cloud with Microsoft Azure.
Learn more - https://www.intellika.in/cloud-migration/
This document summarizes the key factors to consider when evaluating on-premise versus cloud-based law practice management software. It discusses cost in terms of upfront, ongoing, and long-term expenses. Security is addressed, noting advantages of both on-premise control and cloud vendor expertise. Functionality such as implementation, customization, and mobile access is also compared. Connectivity depends on location and internet capabilities. Ethical obligations to protect client data apply regardless of the system chosen. The presentation aims to help firms decide which approach best fits their needs and capabilities.
Cloud migration involves moving data, applications, and workloads from on-premise infrastructure to cloud services delivered over the internet. There are three major cloud models - SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS - that each provide different levels of control and flexibility. Successful cloud migration requires identifying stakeholders, assessing costs and benefits, addressing legal and security risks, and choosing an appropriate migration approach like rehosting or replatforming applications. Careful planning is needed to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.
Cloud migration is the process of moving databases, applications, and IT processes from an organization's on-premises or legacy infrastructure to the cloud. There are several benefits to migrating to the cloud, such as scalability, cost savings, and flexibility. However, cloud migrations also present challenges like ensuring data integrity during the transfer and migrating large databases. When performing an on-premises to cloud migration, organizations typically establish goals, create a security strategy, copy over data, move business intelligence processes, and switch production to the cloud.
Moving to the cloud: cloud strategies and roadmapsJisc
The document provides an overview of strategies and roadmaps for moving to the cloud. It begins with demystifying cloud concepts and terminology. It then outlines a step-by-step guide to moving to the cloud, including developing a strategy, understanding current environments, componentizing the problem, having a migration plan, and implementing the plan. Example phases of a cloud migration program are also provided, such as moving email and productivity tools to SaaS in phase 1, backups and archiving in phase 2, and infrastructure in phase 3. The document concludes by describing how Jisc can help members through advisory services, frameworks, and managed cloud platforms and connectivity.
The document discusses cloud migration strategies including re-hosting, re-platforming, and re-architecting applications. It notes that the cloud services market is projected to grow significantly through 2027, creating over a million new jobs in India alone. Key skills needed for these jobs include programming languages, server management, infrastructure as code, platform as a service, and DevOps tools.
Insurtech, Cloud and Cybersecurity - Chartered Insurance InstituteHenrique Centieiro
Nov. 2020 presentation on Insurtech, how cloud is enabling insurtech and cybersecurity for cloud and insurtech.
Prepared by Henrique Centieiro for CII - Chartered Insurance Institute Hong Kong
Discover and Manage Oracle's Cloud Services @on-premise using Enterprise Manager, Oracle. Monitor and Manage private and public cloud DB services with a single pane of glass ( Enterprise Manager, Oracle).
Learn how to move, restore on-premise databases into Oracle cloud (and back).
From on premise to the hybrid cloud with microsoft azureDotNetCampus
This document contains a presentation about migrating workloads from on-premise environments to Microsoft Azure. It discusses the Azure IaaS model and how to create and customize virtual machines on Azure. It also covers topics like hybrid cloud, networking, storage architecture, availability and service level agreements. The document provides an overview of options for migrating existing virtual machines to Azure and the migration process.
This document outlines strategies for building a cloud strategy, including core cloud strategy, operational strategy, risk mitigation and governance strategy, and core ICT strategy. It discusses visualizing strategic thinking with a cloud reference architecture and delivering a cloud strategy via an architectural methodology. Key aspects covered include service models, operations and lifecycle management, application migration, IT maturity and total cost of ownership, risk and compliance, security, and architecture.
The document discusses strategies for enterprise cloud migrations. It notes that minimizing downtime, staying within budget, and avoiding performance impacts are top challenges. It recommends developing a multi-cloud strategy using approaches like lift-and-shift, re-architecting, and reconsidering applications. Preparing applications by fixing issues, understanding architecture and user needs, and monitoring performance during migration are also emphasized.
Migrating your Existing Applications to the CloudNestweaver
Cloud migration is the process of moving the applications, data or business elements from on-premise location or organization computer to the cloud or migrating from one cloud environment to another. The transition of data between cloud environments is called cloud to cloud migration and transitioning to a different cloud provider is called cloud service migration. In some cases, the successful migration to service provider environment may require middleware or cloud integration tool to bridge the gap between the service provider and the customer.
Cloud computing and migration strategies to cloudSourabh Saxena
The document discusses cloud computing and strategies for migrating applications to the cloud. It provides the following key points:
- The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.3% in 2019 to $206.2 billion, with infrastructure as a service growing the fastest at 27.6%.
- Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared configurable computing resources over the internet. There are private, public, hybrid and community deployment models.
- The main service models are infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Migrating applications to the cloud offers benefits like cost savings, scalability, and ease
This document discusses cloud migration and the process involved. It covers the following key points:
1. Cloud migration involves moving applications, data, and other business elements from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud. This allows organizations to benefit from cloud capabilities while maintaining some systems on-premise in a hybrid approach.
2. The migration process involves planning, scheduling, pre-migration activities, executing the migration, and handing operations over to the cloud environment. Various tools like open-source, batch processing, and cloud-based options can aid the migration.
3. Major benefits of cloud migration include reduced costs through scalability and not maintaining own infrastructure, simplified management through cloud providers handling complexity, and improved security
The document summarizes a presentation about driving cloud strategy and planning. It discusses:
1) How enterprise architects must drive cloud strategy and planning to connect business strategy to implementation through cloud.
2) An end-to-end cloud strategy and planning framework that takes a business value driven methodology to enable selection of the right cloud investments.
3) How the framework embraces and extends proven cloud practices, provides tools and guidance, and is based on real-world customer engagements.
Cloud Migration Key Points to Consider.pdfniahiggins21
The document discusses key considerations for migrating a business to the cloud. It covers potential benefits like improved performance, faster innovation, enhanced resilience and security. It also discusses important factors to consider like choosing the right cloud platform, budgeting, data security and common challenges. The cloud migration process involves discovery, design, migration, going live and ongoing support phases. Different migration strategies like rehosting, replatforming, repurchasing, refactoring, retiring and retaining are also outlined.
Cloud migration involves moving an organization's infrastructure and applications to the cloud to ensure business continuity. The document provides an overview of cloud migration strategies, steps, challenges and considerations. It recommends prioritizing requirements, choosing a cloud provider, migration style and tools, communicating the changes, executing the migration carefully, and ongoing cloud management. Migrating to the cloud can optimize costs, improve agility and scalability, but requires planning to avoid downtime, data loss or architectural issues during the transition.
December 2014 Webinar - Planning Your 2015 Cloud StrategyRapidScale
By 2015, at least 20% of cloud services will be consumed through cloud service brokerages rather than directly. Security, cloud computing, and analytics are predicted to lead IT spending increases in 2015. Cloud projects and increasing IT budgets are also important trends for 2015.
RightScale Webinar: The Five Critical Steps to Develop a Cloud StrategyRightScale
With the advent of the public cloud, central IT has a mandate to not be left behind. Having an organization-wide cloud strategy is imperative for maximizing IT agility, while maintaining centralized control and mitigating “shadow IT”.
Your cloud strategy should be aligned to maximize your business value. The question is how? In this webinar we show our our five-step framework, based on helping over 1,000 organizations achieve cloud success.
You'll learn how to:
1. Identify your cloud motivations
2. Assess your current cloud maturity
3. Overcome the four common cloud challenges
4. Plan your cloud portfolio
5. Choose your cloud adoption pattern - Cloud First, Targeted, or Grass Roots
This document provides a guide for migrating infrastructure, databases, and applications to the cloud. It discusses why organizations are choosing to migrate now, including reducing costs, increasing flexibility and scalability, and improving security. The guide outlines Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework for planning and executing a cloud migration. It covers strategies for assessing the current environment, planning the migration, moving workloads to the cloud, and ongoing management after migration. The goal is to provide best practices to help organizations efficiently and successfully migrate to the cloud.
Cloud migration is the process of moving databases, applications, and IT processes from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. It requires preparation and advance work but results in cost savings and flexibility. Businesses choose between strategies like rehosting (moving to cloud servers), refactoring (reusing code on a cloud platform), rewriting code, or replacing applications with cloud-based software. They must also decide between hybrid cloud (mixing on-premises and cloud infrastructure) or multicloud (using multiple public cloud providers). The main challenges are ensuring data integrity during transfer and migrating large databases, while maintaining continuous operations.
Cloud Migration Checklist | Microsoft Azure MigrationIntellika
This checklist walks you through the steps to plan, assess, and begin your cloud migration, and offers resources to help you move to the cloud with Microsoft Azure.
Learn more - https://www.intellika.in/cloud-migration/
This document summarizes the key factors to consider when evaluating on-premise versus cloud-based law practice management software. It discusses cost in terms of upfront, ongoing, and long-term expenses. Security is addressed, noting advantages of both on-premise control and cloud vendor expertise. Functionality such as implementation, customization, and mobile access is also compared. Connectivity depends on location and internet capabilities. Ethical obligations to protect client data apply regardless of the system chosen. The presentation aims to help firms decide which approach best fits their needs and capabilities.
Cloud migration involves moving data, applications, and workloads from on-premise infrastructure to cloud services delivered over the internet. There are three major cloud models - SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS - that each provide different levels of control and flexibility. Successful cloud migration requires identifying stakeholders, assessing costs and benefits, addressing legal and security risks, and choosing an appropriate migration approach like rehosting or replatforming applications. Careful planning is needed to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.
Cloud migration is the process of moving databases, applications, and IT processes from an organization's on-premises or legacy infrastructure to the cloud. There are several benefits to migrating to the cloud, such as scalability, cost savings, and flexibility. However, cloud migrations also present challenges like ensuring data integrity during the transfer and migrating large databases. When performing an on-premises to cloud migration, organizations typically establish goals, create a security strategy, copy over data, move business intelligence processes, and switch production to the cloud.
Moving to the cloud: cloud strategies and roadmapsJisc
The document provides an overview of strategies and roadmaps for moving to the cloud. It begins with demystifying cloud concepts and terminology. It then outlines a step-by-step guide to moving to the cloud, including developing a strategy, understanding current environments, componentizing the problem, having a migration plan, and implementing the plan. Example phases of a cloud migration program are also provided, such as moving email and productivity tools to SaaS in phase 1, backups and archiving in phase 2, and infrastructure in phase 3. The document concludes by describing how Jisc can help members through advisory services, frameworks, and managed cloud platforms and connectivity.
The document discusses cloud migration strategies including re-hosting, re-platforming, and re-architecting applications. It notes that the cloud services market is projected to grow significantly through 2027, creating over a million new jobs in India alone. Key skills needed for these jobs include programming languages, server management, infrastructure as code, platform as a service, and DevOps tools.
Insurtech, Cloud and Cybersecurity - Chartered Insurance InstituteHenrique Centieiro
Nov. 2020 presentation on Insurtech, how cloud is enabling insurtech and cybersecurity for cloud and insurtech.
Prepared by Henrique Centieiro for CII - Chartered Insurance Institute Hong Kong
Discover and Manage Oracle's Cloud Services @on-premise using Enterprise Manager, Oracle. Monitor and Manage private and public cloud DB services with a single pane of glass ( Enterprise Manager, Oracle).
Learn how to move, restore on-premise databases into Oracle cloud (and back).
From on premise to the hybrid cloud with microsoft azureDotNetCampus
This document contains a presentation about migrating workloads from on-premise environments to Microsoft Azure. It discusses the Azure IaaS model and how to create and customize virtual machines on Azure. It also covers topics like hybrid cloud, networking, storage architecture, availability and service level agreements. The document provides an overview of options for migrating existing virtual machines to Azure and the migration process.
This document outlines strategies for building a cloud strategy, including core cloud strategy, operational strategy, risk mitigation and governance strategy, and core ICT strategy. It discusses visualizing strategic thinking with a cloud reference architecture and delivering a cloud strategy via an architectural methodology. Key aspects covered include service models, operations and lifecycle management, application migration, IT maturity and total cost of ownership, risk and compliance, security, and architecture.
The document discusses strategies for enterprise cloud migrations. It notes that minimizing downtime, staying within budget, and avoiding performance impacts are top challenges. It recommends developing a multi-cloud strategy using approaches like lift-and-shift, re-architecting, and reconsidering applications. Preparing applications by fixing issues, understanding architecture and user needs, and monitoring performance during migration are also emphasized.
Migrating your Existing Applications to the CloudNestweaver
Cloud migration is the process of moving the applications, data or business elements from on-premise location or organization computer to the cloud or migrating from one cloud environment to another. The transition of data between cloud environments is called cloud to cloud migration and transitioning to a different cloud provider is called cloud service migration. In some cases, the successful migration to service provider environment may require middleware or cloud integration tool to bridge the gap between the service provider and the customer.
Cloud computing and migration strategies to cloudSourabh Saxena
The document discusses cloud computing and strategies for migrating applications to the cloud. It provides the following key points:
- The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.3% in 2019 to $206.2 billion, with infrastructure as a service growing the fastest at 27.6%.
- Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared configurable computing resources over the internet. There are private, public, hybrid and community deployment models.
- The main service models are infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). Migrating applications to the cloud offers benefits like cost savings, scalability, and ease
This document discusses cloud migration and the process involved. It covers the following key points:
1. Cloud migration involves moving applications, data, and other business elements from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud. This allows organizations to benefit from cloud capabilities while maintaining some systems on-premise in a hybrid approach.
2. The migration process involves planning, scheduling, pre-migration activities, executing the migration, and handing operations over to the cloud environment. Various tools like open-source, batch processing, and cloud-based options can aid the migration.
3. Major benefits of cloud migration include reduced costs through scalability and not maintaining own infrastructure, simplified management through cloud providers handling complexity, and improved security
The document summarizes a presentation about driving cloud strategy and planning. It discusses:
1) How enterprise architects must drive cloud strategy and planning to connect business strategy to implementation through cloud.
2) An end-to-end cloud strategy and planning framework that takes a business value driven methodology to enable selection of the right cloud investments.
3) How the framework embraces and extends proven cloud practices, provides tools and guidance, and is based on real-world customer engagements.
Cloud Migration Key Points to Consider.pdfniahiggins21
The document discusses key considerations for migrating a business to the cloud. It covers potential benefits like improved performance, faster innovation, enhanced resilience and security. It also discusses important factors to consider like choosing the right cloud platform, budgeting, data security and common challenges. The cloud migration process involves discovery, design, migration, going live and ongoing support phases. Different migration strategies like rehosting, replatforming, repurchasing, refactoring, retiring and retaining are also outlined.
Cloud migration involves moving an organization's infrastructure and applications to the cloud to ensure business continuity. The document provides an overview of cloud migration strategies, steps, challenges and considerations. It recommends prioritizing requirements, choosing a cloud provider, migration style and tools, communicating the changes, executing the migration carefully, and ongoing cloud management. Migrating to the cloud can optimize costs, improve agility and scalability, but requires planning to avoid downtime, data loss or architectural issues during the transition.
Elements to consider in the cloud transformationBenji Harrison
Many enterprises are still reluctant to take the full plunge into cloud. Whether it is reluctance to invest the required resources or regulatory constraints,
This document discusses hybrid cloud strategies and addresses common views presented by cloud vendors. It summarizes that while public cloud promises simplicity and low costs, it may not be suitable for all workloads and could limit integration, agility, and control. A hybrid approach using public and private clouds can provide more flexibility and choice to align IT with business needs. IBM's hybrid cloud approach aims to provide open standards, choice of deployment options, and consistent management across environments to help businesses innovate quickly.
The document discusses cloud cost governance in a multi-cloud environment. It notes that over 60% of enterprises now use a mix of public and private clouds for operational agility and scalability. However, managing costs across multiple cloud services introduces complexity. The document outlines three key factors that drive up cloud costs: poor budgeting, lack of accountability, and under-optimization. It provides recommendations in each area to improve cost governance, including dynamic budgeting based on baseline usage, clear accountability policies, and ongoing optimization through performance measurement and insights. The goal is to control cloud costs without compromising agility through the right tools and methodologies.
The cloud can be considered the software and services that reside and operate over the internet rather than an on-premise network of servers. There are many things enterprises must do to facilitate a smooth migration to the cloud. To adapt to the cloud, they have to improve the scalability of internet-based database capabilities while reducing the cost of risk.
Moving to the cloud not only helps reduce costs but also imparts flexibility and scalability to the organisation. Adding an extra server requires capital expenditure, while dynamically changing requirements like this can be considered operating expenses. Despite these advantages, the cost might still be too high for it to matter so go over every aspect that can or will be impacted.
Achieve Economic Synergies by Managing Your Enterprise Assets In The CloudDr. HJ Raza, Ph.D/MBA
Time to market and rapid response to market demands are now utmost priorities for any size organization. When compared to conventional internal infrastructure, Cloud-based solutions meet this requirement better than ever. Cloud-based solutions are easy to implement, more cost efficient, and robust enough to meet enterprise demands such as auto-scalability, disaster recovery, and fail-over.
Architecting your Cloud Strategy - Part One.vsdxGareth Llewellyn
This document discusses establishing a strategy for introducing cloud-based changes to an organization using architecture. It emphasizes the importance of having an established business vision and strategy aligned to cloud strategy. The cloud reference model shown provides a visual overview of key considerations for a cloud strategy, including public vs private options, hybrid models, software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and more. Architectural methodologies can help provide a managed approach to defining cloud strategy and governing implementations to ensure business value.
Top 7 value propositions of a Multi Cloud strategyVincy Ko
Multi-cloud delivers a rich mix of benefits that enterprises to adopt the model is unstoppable, cost reduction and convenience. As user confidence grows with positive experiences, cloud services will become the norm.
A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Cloud Migrations.pptxXcelligen Inc
Unlock the secrets to successful cloud migrations with our comprehensive guide. Get expert tips and strategies for a smooth transition. Don't miss out!
Hybrid clouds offer the best of both public and private clouds by combining two or more cloud infrastructures. They provide enterprises with scalability, flexibility and control. Most enterprises now adopt a hybrid multi-cloud strategy to deploy workloads across public, private and hybrid clouds based on their needs and applications. Hybrid clouds allow optimization of resources and costs by providing capabilities like cloud bursting during periods of high demand. Successful hybrid strategies require integration of applications and workloads across cloud environments.
Multi-Cloud Strategy for Unrestricted PossibilitiesHarsh V Sehgal
Multi-cloud strategies allow organizations to use multiple cloud providers to gain various benefits like choosing the best cloud for each workload, cost savings, and redundancy. A multi-cloud strategy involves selecting clouds deliberately based on needs rather than using them haphazardly. It requires addressing challenges like management complexity, security, and interoperability. Planning is key to avoiding issues and achieving business goals through a multi-cloud approach.
A proper cloud vs. on-prem strategy is top of mind for IT leaders as they build systems to avoid problems, increase agility, and achieve modernization.
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A cloud-native system is a software application that runs on private or public cloud, uses services architecture that enables massive scalability, and takes advantage of development pipelines. The document discusses the benefits of cloud-native systems compared to systems merely moved to cloud infrastructure, including enhanced scalability, redundancy, security, and cost optimization. It also notes that CompatibL Cloud is designed as a multi-cloud solution to provide customers flexibility in deployment options and technologies.
The Adoption of Cloud Technology by Enterprises - A Whitepaper by RapidValue ...RapidValue
This whitepaper addresses the primary reasons for enterprises migrating to the cloud infrastructure, various types of cloud deployment (technology & services) models IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud, feature comparison of two popular cloud platforms – AWS and Microsoft Azure, and some examples of how enterprises and consumers are using the cloud technology.
Understanding The Cloud For Enterprise Businesses, an eBook from Triaxil!Ezhilarasan Natarajan
Cloud is getting lots of attention these days. Cloud is a transformational platform that can support the opportunities of today’s digital business being shaped and driven by mobile, social, IoT (Internet of Things), Big Data and other forces. Cloud Computing not only is a powerful agent of change, but it also can accelerate transformation.
The benefits are big. “Cloud computing is a disruptive phenomenon, with the
potential to make IT organizations more responsive than ever,” says research firm Gartner. “Cloud computing promises economic advantages, speed, agility,
flexibility,infinite elasticity and innovation.” As a result, more and more enterprises are moving to the cloud. According to Gartner, 78 percent of enterprises are planning to increase their investment in cloud through 2017.
Interested further?
Understanding The Cloud For Enterprise Businesses. Triaxil
Cloud is getting lots of attention these days. Cloud is a transformational platform that can support the opportunities of today’s digital business being shaped and driven by mobile, social, IoT (Internet of Things), Big Data and other forces. Cloud Computing not only is a powerful agent of change, but it also can accelerate transformation.
The benefits are big. “Cloud computing is a disruptive phenomenon, with the potential to make IT organizations more responsive than ever,” says research firm Gartner. “Cloud computing promises economic advantages, speed, agility, flexibility,infinite elasticity an dinnovation.” As a result, more and more enterprises are moving to the cloud. According to Gartner, 78 percent of enterprises are planning to increase their investment in cloud through 2017.
Embark on a transformative journey with our guide to Cloud Migration, a comprehensive resource designed to demystify the complexities of transitioning to the cloud. In this illuminating exploration, we delve into the key considerations, strategies, and best practices that organizations need to embrace as they migrate their operations to the cloud.
Uncover the benefits of cloud migration, from enhanced scalability and flexibility to improved cost efficiency and agility. Our guide provides actionable insights for businesses at every stage, whether contemplating their initial move to the cloud or optimizing existing cloud infrastructures.
Explore real-world case studies that highlight successful cloud migration stories, showcasing how businesses across industries have harnessed the power of cloud technologies to drive innovation, boost performance, and stay competitive in today's dynamic market.
From risk mitigation and security considerations to selecting the right cloud service models, this guide equips you with the knowledge to make informed decisions throughout the migration process. Whether you're an IT professional, business leader, or technology enthusiast, empower yourself with the knowledge needed to navigate the intricacies of cloud migration.
Seize the opportunities that cloud migration presents and ensure a seamless transition for your organization. Your journey to the cloud starts here.
Unlock the Potential of Cloud Migration: Navigate. Transform. Succeed.
Is there anything that can double the advantages of hybrid cloud hosting without requiring heavy IT investment? Yes, there is. Effective resource allocation and cost management can help improve hybrid cloud benefits. Read to know how.
Overcoming Operational & Financial Barriers to CloudTrustmarque
Discover some best practices and potential solutions to help your organisation simplify the biggest financial and operational challenges currently associated with cloud adoption in 2017.
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Enterprise Cloud Strategy - Facts, FAQs and Implementation Steps
1. Enterprise Cloud Strategy – Facts, FAQs and
Implementation Steps
Without the cloud, enterprises are likely to spend about 80% of their budget on managing the
legacy infrastructure (hardware + software). This is because enterprises maintain their private
data centers that become costly to upscale in conjunction with their ever-increasing business
needs.
Today, implementing a cloud strategy is a mainstay of every enterprise that aims to achieve —
decrease in expenditure, less maintenance of data center, and increased focus on innovation.
The economy of scale offered by the cloud is worth its weight in gold for enterprises.
2. And now that COVID-19 is affecting businesses across the globe, cloud computing is gaining
even more traction as it promises business continuity and all-time remote access. But, it is
easier said than done. Migrating to the cloud is a complex process that requires a fool-proof
strategy to abide by.
To leverage the power of cloud computing on a holistic level, you would have to take a step
forward and understand the cloud journey before getting on with it.
3. So, let’s get started.
Why Worry About Your Enterprise’s Cloud Strategy?
An enterprise cloud strategy lays down cloud adoption recommendations for your business and
a fool-proof plan for implementation. Why do you need a cloud strategy? Having an enterprise
cloud strategy ensures fewer hindrances along with the cloud migration and adoption journey
while maximizing business benefits.
Devising a cloud strategy starts with analyzing your organization’s current status, deciding for a
cloud migration strategy that will suit your business and functional requirements, and how this
cloud digital transformation wave will change the enterprise dynamics.
Types of Enterprise Cloud Strategy
There are various cloud strategies available that you could choose from, but your finalized
strategy should align with your business needs and scaling capability.
According to the Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud Report, as much as 93% of respondents
vouch for a multi-cloud strategy that includes hybrid cloud too. Whereas, only a few rely on
single public or single private in the current times.
4. Let’s see what each of these cloud strategies imply:
1. Single Public
This is a type of strategy where computing, cloud storage, and software are made available by
the cloud provider on a pay-as-you-go basis, i.e., you only pay for what you use. In the public
cloud, providers manage millions of data centers worldwide to maintain all-time availability and
throughput.
5. The public cloud strategy is beneficial for enterprises looking to save on maintaining
legacy infrastructure while an opportunity to focus on core business functionalities.
2. Single Private
This is a type of strategy where the cloud you host your data and applications, belongs explicitly
to you. The technology stack that matches the business needs is hosted by the cloud provider in
an on-premise data center.
The private cloud strategy is beneficial for enterprises that cannot risk moving critical
data off-premises, and are highly concerned about data security.
3. Hybrid Cloud
A hybrid cloud is a mix of private and public clouds. Enterprises prefer hybrid cloud strategy as it
the best deal, and they can maintain some applications on-premises while moving others to the
public cloud.
All enterprises are in the hybrid state at one point when migrating to the cloud. This is
when you have already moved some applications to the cloud, and some still run
on-premises.
6. 4. Multiple-Public
This is a type of strategy where an enterprise relies on more than one cloud service model
(IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) of the same type (private or public) from more than one cloud provider.
Some have an understanding that a multi-cloud strategy is the same as a hybrid cloud, but it is
not.
This is the best and the most popular strategy that enterprises rely upon as it offers an
orchestrated cloud experience.
Commonly Asked Questions When Developing an
Enterprise Cloud Strategy
Here are some commonly asked questions that align with enterprise cloud strategy.
1. What is a Cloud-First Strategy?
An enterprise that prioritizes cloud as the primary mode of running their legacy infrastructure is
referred to as cloud-first. That is, whenever an organization needs new infrastructure or
applications, they will give priority to the cloud over on-premise deployment. Cloud-First is a
prominent strategy that is helping remote-first organizations evolve.
7. 2. How are Cost and Time Related when Implementing an
Enterprise Cloud Strategy?
The time you take to devise a cloud strategy framework, followed by its implementation, decides
the corresponding expenditure. There are three phases of migration that can be classified as —
aggressive, moderate, and slow. Here’s what each of them implies:
● Aggressive: When you decide to move 50% of your legacy infrastructure to the cloud in
one year. An aggressive plan will prove beneficial in the long run but involves higher risk
and cost of migration.
● Moderate: When you decide to move about 30% of your legacy infrastructure to the cloud
in one year.
● Slow: When you decide to move about 10% of your legacy infrastructure to the cloud in
one year. The cost of migration will be less, but it will affect the organization’s overall
growth due to its slow transformation.
If you ask what is the best cloud strategy that reduces costs and increases efficiencies, the
answer would be a moderate strategy where you move to the cloud while maintaining a
balance.
3. Is Multi-Cloud Strategy Mainstream?
A multi-cloud strategy allows benefiting from the best services that the popular cloud service
providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Platform provide. Yes, it is the new normal, and even
8. Flexera’s state of cloud report for 2020 says that 93% of respondents (n=554) use the
multi-cloud strategy, i.e., a combination of multi public and hybrid cloud.
Five Steps for Planning a Cloud Strategy for Your
Enterprise
Creating an enterprise strategy is essential before migrating to the cloud. The strategy may vary
from enterprise to enterprise. However, here are some steps that every enterprise cloud
strategy should follow.
1. Creating an Enterprise Cloud Strategy Team
For ensuring that your cloud adoption journey stays on track, creating a cloud strategy
team becomes essential. This team is generally headed by the CTO of your enterprise and
comprises IT and networking teams.
The team holds the responsibility to build a cloud strategy roadmap and checklist, ensure its
successful implementation, and communicate with the stakeholders from time to time. The cloud
strategy team also is the key decision-maker when choosing a cloud deployment model, cloud
migration strategy, and cloud providers.
The core responsibilities of the team can be summarised as follows:
● Making faster and informed decisions when choosing from among various cloud strategies
● Maintaining communication with the stakeholders
9. ● Choosing between applications that need to be moved to the cloud vs the applications that
will be maintained on-premises
● Framing and implementing a cloud strategy implementation plan to address hindrances
towards successful cloud adoption
● Analyzing, planning, and managing cloud as new realities evolve
2. Analyze Applications Thoroughly
Before framing your enterprise cloud strategy, analyzing applications, and their relevance to the
cloud becomes imperative. Decide between applications that need to stay on-premises vs the
applications that need to move to the cloud.
For instance, mission-critical applications ought to stay on-premises. The same applies to
applications that are out-dated and need to be jettisoned. Moving such applications to the cloud
will only add to the costs with minimum to no benefits in return.
In short, if the risk to move a particular application to the cloud is higher, maintain it
on-premises.
10. 3. Building A Hybrid Cloud Strategy Roadmap
Not all applications and services can be moved to the public cloud. Where some are maintained
on-premises on a private cloud, some need to be abandoned as they are no more valuable.
Here’s a hybrid cloud strategy that you need to understand for getting one step ahead in the
cloud adoption journey.
11. a. Rightsize
Goal: Modernization with the Microservices Architecture
Enterprises confuse cloud migration with simply rehosting their applications from on-premises to
the cloud, i.e., lift and shift. However, this strategy is not an ideal solution as optimizations are
essential in order to adjust to the new environment.
The applications need to be reconfigured so that they can be cloud-ready, i.e., they need to be
resized. This is possible by breaking down the monolithic application structure and adopting the
microservices architecture.
Microservices architecture focuses on developing an application with smaller modules that are
loosely coupled. This reduces the cost and effort involved in cloud adoption while adding
flexibility to iterate whenever necessary.
A cloud strategy example — Netflix took almost seven years to transform its applications and
adopt the microservices architecture to move to Amazon Web Services. The reconfigured
application structure maximized service availability and reduced IT costs as opposed to
on-premise management of resources.
b. Retire
Goal: Looking for a Corresponding SaaS Solution
12. It is better to look for alternative SaaS solutions for applications that require to be updated or
should be retired, as identified in the step above. This is a preferable step if you wish to trim
down the time to successful cloud adoption. It is not only cost-savvy but also saves you from the
effort of developing an application all over again.
There are third-party SaaS product development companies available that help develops
applications that suit different business needs. The cloud strategy team needs to identify these
providers, weigh in their pros and cons, market share, and even pricing before finalizing the best
fit.
For example, your relation management software that is getting obsolete with time can be
replaced with available third-party CRM software online.
4. Reskilling and Upskilling
Once you implement your cloud strategy, the routine IT operations will witness a significant shift.
This will further lead to a change in the roles and responsibilities of the IT department, for which
your enterprise should prepare in advance.
The new model is, ‘You own it, you build it,” giving single teams
ownership of every stage of development and requiring that IT and the
business operate in lockstep with one another.— Charlie Li, Capgemini’s chief
cloud officer
13. Reskilling and upskilling is a safe strategy to implement where everybody across the enterprise
can learn and adapt to the new working environment. It will reduce burnout and productivity, the
greater agenda of any workplace.
As the traditional roles will continue to prevail in the background, the newer cloud-driven roles
will evolve and hold precedence. Here is a chart that serves as an example of how enterprise
roles will change after implementing the cloud strategy.
Traditional Roles vs Evolving Roles
Traditional Role Cloud-Driven Role
UI, UX Designer
Process Engineer(ensures orchestrated and
hindrance free loud experience)
Developer
Cloud Architect (leverage cloud for ensuring
business benefits)
Engineering and DevOps (ensures
continuous deployment)
14. Tester
Engineering and DevOps (ensures
continuous deployment)
Data Analyst
Data Scientist (Provides insightful data that
offers value)
Applications Monitoring and Support
Engineering and DevOps (ensures
continuous deployment)
Network Engineer
Engineering and DevOps (ensures
continuous deployment)
Edge and Wireless Networking (ensures
secure remote-access)
Solution Manager
Relationship Manager (cloud advisor)
Business Architect (ensures the best use of
cloud assets)
15. Another significant change in the organization is the amalgamation of — development and
operations department, thus paving the way for the DevOps culture.
Introduction to DevOps
DevOps = Development Team + Operations Team
DevOps is the new reality that has led to a cross-functional setup in the teams that have
managed to bridge the communication gap across the organizational culture.
With the cloud, deploying new applications or new features to the existing applications on the
cloud becomes normal. This means you would have to appoint the development team to create
applications using agile development practices.
Now, as the development teams step in, so would the testers. Thus, breaking the silos that exist
between developers, tests, and operations departments.
The takeaway is that you need to prepare, reskill, and upskill your staff to know their changing
roles and responsibilities and to train them to what lies ahead. This is an essential step to
ensure that cloud strategy best practices are followed.
5. Implementation
16. When implementing the cloud strategy, the first thing that needs to be decided is as to what part
of the legacy infrastructure will be moved first. It is not a one-time effort, but a long-term
initiative.
For instance, you are moving a large pile of books from one room to another. Carrying them all
at once will be challenging, and the burden might be too much to handle. Moreover, you might
fall too.
On the other hand, if you carry only limited books at a time, you can easily carry the weight
while ensuring the pile stays intact. The same is the case with cloud migration. You need to lift
and shift in partitions. But, here the operations team also needs to prioritize what needs to be
moved first based on your business requirements.
Here’s a migration strategy prioritization example by Microsoft:
17. According to the diagram above, choosing low complexity, low business risk workloads should
hold priority. If you start small, you can learn and implement better when it comes to complex
and high-risk workloads.
Ideally, this should be the order of movement in the cloud:
● First Phase: Development and Testing (DevTest) environments, Web apps, new products
and solutions, redesigned solutions and products
18. ● Second Phase: Regulatory solutions, High Input/Output online transactional processing
systems (OLTP)
● Third Phase: Secure high-value assets (HVA) systems, public key infrastructure (PKI)
systems, and legacy source control systems
Next, follow this cloud migration plan when migrating each of the workloads over to the cloud.
Six Steps for Implementing the Cloud Migration Plan
Process Inference
1. Analysis
Identify the gaps, i.e., what applications you
have vs how you want them to be
Plan for the change in the application
architecture accordingly
Coordinate with information security and risk
management teams to ensure security and
privacy controls are in place
19. 2. Application Migration
Create a basic version of the application
loaded with minimum data on the cloud
If the application is running on a virtual
machine, you can proceed to move the
application on the cloud without changes
Optimize the application to offer
performance, scalability, and security
3. Networking
Set up a virtual private network (VPN)
4. Data Migration
Move the data in primitive form (with the help
of automated tools) either to the relational or
non-relational location on the cloud
You can also rebuild the data model to
achieve performance, security, and
resilience benefits
Create a data recovery plan or resilience
planning ensuring business continuity
20. 5. Optimization and Testing
After moving your applications and data,
perform performance testing on the cloud
Measure, identify and fix performance gaps if
any
6. Operation and Management
Deploy application tracing and monitoring
tools offered by cloud providers such as
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Use the incoming stats from these tools to
monitor performance, identify bugs,
troubleshoot, and even analyze traffic
Get access to a single and holistic view of
applications at one place
Conclusion
Devising and implementing an enterprise cloud strategy ensures a fool-proof execution of the
cloud migration and adoption process. The cloud adoption changes how businesses and IT
operate. It is not just another change management initiative, but an entire digital transformation
project that requires priority and expertise.
21. In this write-up, we have covered the enterprise cloud strategy steps that ensure successful
migration and deployment of the cloud. It starts with creating an enterprise cloud strategy team,
analyzing applications, and deciding what should move to the cloud vs what should be
maintained on-premises. Next, building a hybrid cloud strategy roadmap, considering reskilling
and upskilling, and finally moving ahead with migration in phases.
The more strategically and patiently you move, the better the implementation and
success of your enterprise cloud strategy.
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