Cloud migration

Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications and services from a company’s local servers to a cloud environment or moving them between clouds. The cloud environment is provided by service providers – these are cloud providers.

With migration, an organization can optimize infrastructure maintenance and administration costs, increase system performance, flexibility and fault tolerance, and improve the efficiency of geo-distributed teams and the company’s information security.

Stages of cloud migration

Evaluation. Determination of all applications, data and services that need to be moved to the cloud, assessment of their readiness for smooth operation in the cloud environment.

Planning. Select a cloud service provider and plan the entire process with the cloud provider’s specialists, including the migration procedure and timing..

Migration.Move applications, data and services directly to the cloud. Migration may require a brief shutdown of systems to ensure data consistency. Migration.

Testing. After the migration is complete, the cloud provider performs testing to ensure that all systems are stable in the new environment. Testing.

Optimization. Customize and optimize applications for the cloud environment and monitor performance. Optimization.

Benefits of migrating to the cloud

Cost-effectiveness.Compared to the cost of maintaining on-premises servers, cloud services can reduce the cost of deploying and administering IT infrastructure.

Scalability. Depending on the business needs in the cloud, you can easily increase or decrease computing resources, for example, during peak periods (discounts, holidays or sales). Scalability.

Business continuity. If the cloud is deployed in a secure Tier III data center, the risk of disasters is minimized, which virtually eliminates the risk of downtime and financial losses to the business..

Comfortable working. Data and services in the cloud are accessible from anywhere in the world where the Internet is available, allowing geo-distributed teams to work more efficiently regardless of their geolocation.