5 Important Steps For Successful Cloud Migration Services

Cloud migration is all about relocating data, applications or other business elements to a cloud computing environment. Cloud Migration Services are the services that are provided to the individuals or organizations to relocate their data on cloud from servers or virtual servers.

Steps for successful Cloud Migration

Cloud Migration Services is all about migrating the data, applications or whole project to the cloud in a way that it’ll help the organizations to grow and provide security over their data and application. 5 important steps for cloud migration are -

1. Search, discover and determine the cloud strategy

The first step should always be about searching, discovering and then accordingly determining the strategy. Begin your cloud migration with searching, discovering and then use the results for the initiative. Next step should be about determining the cloud strategy, about what needs to be done and how.

This step is also about capturing baseline metrics of the application’s IT infrastructure to map workloads to your assets and the application itself. And having a baseline understanding of your metrics will, in turn, help you to establish cloud migration KPIs. This will help with the identification of the issues during the migration process and determination when the migration process is completed. Some of the important KPIs are -

• Page-load times

• Response times

• Availability

• Memory Usage

1. Evaluate applications, choose the suitable one for migration

Moving everything to the cloud is not the right move. Not everything fits in neither belongs to the cloud. Only the most standard line of business applications should go to the cloud and code should be kept in-house. Cost and security should also be considered before moving the application to the cloud. And after evaluating and selecting the most suitable applications one should also ask himself/herself which cloud environment? You can always choose from public, private or multi cloud.

1. Innovatively plan your data migration strategy

Once the applications and the cloud environment are finalized, the next step should be about creating your migration strategy. Plan, how you want to move each asset to the cloud. Data integrity management and operational continuity should not be neglected, these two are also an important part. This step is also about considering the dependencies, which should be migrated with the application and the order of relocating.

1. Choose the right Cloud Provider

The key factor is to choose the right cloud provider. Pick a cloud provider that fits in with your process and needs right and work perfectly fine with you during and after the relocation process. While selecting the cloud provider one should also consider the tools provided as well the third-party tools supported by the cloud provider. Also, look for the supporting cloud environment and to which scale it supports which one.

1. Execution

The last step is always about the execution. The easiest but yet a bit complex. Application’s complexity and architecture and data architecture are the three major factors for execution. Execution involves migrating the entire application and running a test to make sure everything is in place.