Cloud infrastructure is becoming the primary deployment environment for a majority of workloads. As organizations pursue a measured approach to infrastructure and workload changes via the adoption of a hybrid cloud strategy, they’re recognizing that having the same architecture on-premises and in the cloud is important. This enables consistent infrastructure and operations across on-premises and cloud, thereby reducing complexity and management burdens.
When undertaking a cloud migration initiative, customers need to keep key factors in mind in order to leverage existing on-premises investments, avoid any business disruptions and realize the agility, innovation, flexibility and cost efficiencies moving to the cloud offers. This paper’s goal is to help our customers understand the key factors they need to consider while undertaking a cloud migration and modernization initiative−from building a business case upfront, to developing a migration plan and executing the migration. Post-migration, customers can also consider modernizing their applications and infrastructure operations as needed.
