Enterprises are increasing investment in the cloud to meet business objectives, such as improving agility, reducing inefficiencies and providing better experiences for customers. However, starting the cloud migration process can be overwhelming—there are several challenges your enterprise must overcome to migrate systems to the cloud successfully.
This article explores the benefits and challenges of the cloud migration process and outlines how Evolvere can make migration manageable for your enterprise.
Why Migrate to the Cloud?
In many cases, cloud migration is a no-brainer. A successful migration has many advantages, including increased flexibility and agility, faster innovation, reduced costs and easier scalability. Let's explore each of these advantages in more detail:
Increased flexibility and agility
Migrating to the cloud improves flexibility and agility. With traditional on-premise infrastructure, it can be challenging to make changes quickly or easily scale up or down to meet changing demand. Cloud migration, however, can help simplify your infrastructure and make it more flexible so that you can respond quickly to the evolving needs of your organisation.
Faster innovation
When you migrate to the cloud, you can quickly deploy new applications and services without investing in brand-new infrastructure. This means you can experiment with new ideas and approaches without incurring the cost and risk of traditional data centre migration.
Reduce costs
One of the biggest benefits of cloud migration is cost savings. One study found that migrating to the cloud resulted in 20 per cent cost savings on technology infrastructure—freeing up money to be spent in other business areas. With on-premises infrastructure, organisations have to factor in the cost of hardware, software, and maintenance, whereas with cloud-based infrastructure, the costs are all included in the subscription fee.
Improve scalability
The ability to quickly provision and decommission resources on demand can help organisations keep pace with changing business needs. With the right tools and training, your IT teams can increase or decrease capacity relatively quickly without having to change physical hardware.
Better customer expectation management
In today's competitive business environment, it is essential to provide a great customer experience because the way customers interact with your company has a big impact on their overall perception of your brand. A cloud-based infrastructure can help you deliver the best possible experience to your customers by giving you the ability to be responsive to their changing needs by analysing unified customer data.
Cloud Migration Considerations and Challenges
Before making the move to the cloud, organisations must establish what they hope to gain from migration. Cloud migration isn't just a technical exercise—it should be linked to specific business outcomes. Here are a few challenges you must face during your cloud migration journey:
Legacy applications
Legacy applications were not designed for cloud environments, so they may need to be rewritten or re-architected before you can move them. Additionally, some legacy applications may use proprietary protocols or drivers that are not supported in the cloud. On top of that, some legacy applications may depend on other systems or services that cannot be migrated.
Complexity
Cloud migration is a complicated and time-consuming process, one that requires months of careful planning. To make the process even more complex, you and your colleagues may find it challenging to determine which applications should be migrated to the cloud.
Disruptions
Migrating to the cloud can cause significant disruptions to business operations, which can lead to lost productivity and revenue. To avoid these unfortunate disruptions, you should carefully plan the migration process, including the testing and validation phases.
Data Residency Compliance (GDPR)
In recent years, companies have had increased responsibility for securely storing personal information. Many countries also have their own regulatory requirements, adding complexity to which companies must be aware and adhere. As a result, decision-makers may feel hesitant about migrating to the cloud. However, with careful planning, businesses can meet regulatory requirements.
Making Migration Manageable
The migration process can be daunting and time-consuming. However, the rewards of successful cloud migration are simply too good to ignore. The good news is that you don't have to navigate the process alone—Evolvere has the tools to make the process faster and more reliable. Contact us to learn more about how we can help make the cloud migration process more manageable.