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There are a handful of steps you and your cloud migration consulting team will take:

1.Determine your requirements and prioritize: After all, cloud migration is all about realizing critical business objectives. By getting clear on expectations, the style of migration to best fit your company’s needs, and what’s most important for security, performance, and the server itself, your migration team will be able to make the right choice for subsequent steps.

2.Identify the best provider: As discussed above, there are several excellent cloud solutions, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Questions to consider include storage capacity, pricing, flexibility, and market share.

3.Finalize the best cloud deployment model: There are three main configurations to consider:

• Public: A cloud environment shared by multiple organizations; most IT services rely on this public, shared server environment.
• Private: Designed for a single organization’s use only — this means the data center is located on or off-site.
• Hybrid: Just as it sounds, this is a combination of both cloud environments, public and private, working in concert together. For example, an organization might use the public cloud for handling network loads and a private cloud for IT infrastructure.

Once your cloud migration consulting team identifies the best scenario for cloud migration, a strategy is selected from the "5-Rs" discussed above: rehost, refactor, revise, rebuild, and replace.

4.Alert stakeholders: Digital transformation is a huge change, so it’s important to let all employees, colleagues, and vendors know you’re moving from a physical system to the cloud.

5.Select migration tools: There are numerous tools to choose from, including SaaS, open-source, and batch processing. Again, your cloud migration consulting team will advise on what’s best for your business.

6.App and data migration: With all of your strategies and tools in place, it’s time to make the move! Core items to consider in this phase are privacy, security, and compliance.

7.Ongoing maintenance: The migration is the starting point. From here, your cloud team can help optimize your business performance through continuous monitoring and optimization. For example, you’ll want to measure uptime performance, identify/review/fix security and use gaps, and keep tabs on virtual machines’ memory utilization.

There are many benefits to cloud migration vs. having a physical, on-premise infrastructure, including:

• Cost-Effective: It’s much less expensive to manage your business in the cloud. Most of the top providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, have pay-as-you-go (aka pay what you use) pricing models.
• Virtual access: Moving your organization's operations and administration to the cloud means that your team and other stakeholders can truly work any time, from anywhere— essential in our post-pandemic remote working world.
• Future-proofing: The cloud environment is much faster and more responsive, which not only makes your business more competitive now but it also helps sharpen your competitive edge for the future. Also, it empowers your business to take immediate advantage of leading-edge technologies.
• Better scalability: With greater space and power comes much greater flexibility to respond to your growing company’s needs and desires. Plus, your user base can also increase exponentially without any growing pains.
• Increased productivity: Cloud-based businesses no longer have to worry about physical server-related problems like data security, downtime, and post-disaster recovery. And real-time access to information means that your team can get more done faster.

Excellent question! The answer depends on several variables. When you migrate legacy databases and applications to the cloud, there are many mitigating factors, including how many monolithic applications you have and their size and scope.

The more complex your legacy databases and applications are, the longer the migration can take. Keep in mind that a quick migration isn’t necessarily in your best interest; risk mitigation and security should be top-of-mind throughout the process. The good news is today’s technology is adept at identifying the best applications options and helps accelerate digital transformation while mitigating risk. Your cloud migration company will be able to give you a timeline once they assess all the angles.