The main differentiator in how businesses modernize their IT landscapes is not the actual cloud platform that they choose but instead, how they decide to go about migrating data onto the cloud. If a company does not have a solidly planned and implemented migration strategy, they will end up dealing with high costs, performance challenges, and increased operational risk. A thoughtfully developed cloud migration strategy can provide the proper foundation for organizations to grow - allowing for scale, resilience, and long-term flexibility/competitiveness of business.
As a cloud consulting firm, Ancrew Global Services uses its expertise in all aspects of cloud migration to help organizations reach their goals with clarity, control, and confidence. Our work in Strategy, Architecture, and Execution projects is focused on aligning technology with the overall business objectives of an organization.
Many businesses start using the cloud before developing a strategy. When you migrate applications without a strategy, it usually leads to “lift and shift chaos,” where you only take your old applications and systems and put them in a new environment.
Therefore, you need to create a strong cloud migration strategy, ensuring that:
Instead of thinking of migration as a project, think about it as part of larger structured transformations.
Our organization analyzes all applications to determine their dependencies, performance requirements, data privacy considerations, and level of technical debt; we then classify them according to their migration suitability and requirements for modernization, as well as for keeping them as is.
Not all workloads can or should move in the same manner. Based on your organization’s strategic goals, your cloud migration strategy will be based on multiple approaches across various workloads, including rehosting, replatforming your organization’s applications; therefore, selecting an appropriate approach for each workload will minimize the complexity and cost associated with the transition.
While migrating servers to a public cloud might establish cloud-native services, you must also design the surrounding architecture to facilitate scalability and resiliency, utilize automation, and take advantage of elastic resources and managed services in your chosen cloud provider, while also allowing for future portability between multiple cloud providers.
Implementing security measures after the fact is unacceptable for any cloud migration program. Therefore, an effective cloud migration strategy must incorporate identity and access management (IAM), data protection, network security, and compliance into the cloud architecture from day one.
Moving applications in a single event is referred to as a “big bang” migration; this is generally not recommended from an operational or technical standpoint. Instead, you should implement a multi-phase migration strategy that will allow your teams time to learn about new skills and systems as the move occurs while helping to ensure that critical business activities will be maintained throughout the transitional period.
Without adequate monitoring and governance, cloud costs can increase rapidly. Therefore, to keep your cloud expenses aligned with actual business value, you should build in cost-optimization practices when developing your cloud migration strategy.
We are here as trusted partners to assist companies in selecting the appropriate services, designing an effective architecture, and performing migrations accurately.
By acting as a bridge between the various parties involved in the project such as Business Stakeholders and Technical teams, we ensure that the strategy for migrating to the Cloud supports growth, innovation, and operational efficiencies.
There’s a lot of activity surrounding cloud migration, but our company doesn’t just stop there; once your workloads are moved to the cloud, we continue to help you with ongoing optimization, tuning for better performance, and modernizing your operations. We’ll be with you through your journey toward becoming cloud-native, implementing DevOps practices, and being able to use data to drive innovation.
Moving to a cloud environment is not just an IT project; it’s an important part of your overall strategy for doing business today. By creating a successful strategy for moving to the cloud, you can minimize risk, manage costs and create a foundation of technology that will support your organization into the future.
If you are currently developing your migration to the cloud or having difficulty successfully migrating to the cloud, Ancrew Global Services assist you with the definition and execution of a migration strategy that will deliver results both now and into the future.