October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
55 pages
1h 23m
English
Content preview from Preparing for Your Migration to the Cloud
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Preface
How to best take advantage of the cloud is a frequent topic of discussion among all levels of an organization’s IT team. Often, the discussion will be couched in terms of enterprise transformation, or digital transformation, or datacenter consolidation, but at their heart, these projects usually involve cloud migrations.
Cloud migrations can bring great benefit, but the technology is new enough, and changing rapidly enough, that even if you develop an accurate business case, your organization may not achieve those benefits, since your staff is probably inexperienced in cloud migrations. That’s exactly the situation this report is intended to help with.
While there is no universal script for cloud migrations, there are steps you should consider in planning any move to the cloud. One of the big risks in any project is the “unknown-unknowns.” This report won’t give you all the answers, but it will help you highlight the questions that you should be asking in planning a cloud adoption. It is intended to be useful for everyone that is involved in, or wants to advocate for, a cloud migration—from the CIO down to the engineering staff. And I would posit that practically every organization should be thinking about cloud migration in order to maintain the agility it needs to be competitive. I would also suggest that for technical staff, knowledge of cloud technologies and cloud migration principles is as sure a thing for career advancement as there is at the moment.
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