Cloud Data Migration: 5 Lessons to Ponder


According to a recent survey conducted by IDG, around 73% of organizations worldwide have at least one portion of their entire data infrastructure stored in the cloud. This clearly suggests that the advent of cloud data warehouses has positively impacted the data growth scenario by replacing the traditional, on-premise legacy systems.

Cloud Data Migration

A business entity has loads of data stored in its legacy systems, particularly computing resources. Cloud data migration entails transferring data to the cloud computing environment using advanced tools and methodologies.

Every organization wants to level up their game to remain ahead of their competitors. To ensure this, data analytics and other intelligent technologies are leveraged. The problem arises when the businesses find themselves incompetent in handling the vast amount of data stored in their legacy systems without making a major investment. This is where cloud computing comes into play. Using cloud computing, a massive amount of data can be handled easily that contributes to cost-efficiency, scalability, enhanced productivity and security, accessibility, and a lot more. Consequently, better insights can be derived from this data that leads to effective decision-making and overall profitability.

Now, the question arises –How challenging is the process of workload migration to the cloud?

The cloud migration process is not free from challenges, without a doubt. There can be a wide variety of issues that may emerge at different stages to hamper the entire migration progress.

Impetus, a prominent software products and services company, has been helping several organizations, including various Fortune 100 banks, in their cloud migration journey by eliminating core challenges. The experience has led to the unearthing of several methodologies that can be successfully implemented across various business organizations to make their analytics transformation journey smooth. Some of them are discussed below:

1.       Assess to act

No matter what you do, a proper assessment of the present situation, scenario, or system is extremely substantial. The same applies to the cloud migration process. For successful execution, a strong strategy is required that must encapsulate the proper assessment of the workloads that are ready to be migrated.

2.       Involve your stakeholders

While many organizations can address the core technical challenges of cloud migration process, they are particularly ignorant about their stakeholders’ apprehensions. Consequently, the state of imbalance becomes apparent. However, in most cases, the challenges the stakeholders face are mightier than the technical challenges, meaning it is crucial to involve everyone in the plan and work together to ensure successful cloud migration.

3.       Check your options

To guarantee Returns on Investment, you must mull over your technology needs and look out for options that suit your requirements in the best way possible. It is also important to compare them with your present-day investments to keep an upper hand. Besides, you can leverage your current investments wherever necessary to bring cost-efficiency.

By carefully considering the aforementioned tricks and techniques, transformation can be reduced to as much as 50% which saves money and effort while ensuring timely completion.


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