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Rewired

by Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, Rodney Zemmel
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
7h 34m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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Chapter 18A more surgical and value-backed approach to cloud

Revelations are found in clouds.

—Serge King

How much cloud migration work should you undertake as part of your digital transformation? That is a tough question, and one made harder by an often-limited understanding of cloud economics and effective migration strategies. The truth is that results from large-scale cloud migration efforts have too often fallen short of promises and, in many cases, led to surprisingly high investments and drawn-out implementations.1

Successful integration of the cloud into digital and AI transformation requires an approach based on where the value is.2 In other words, which business domains have you decided to prioritize on your digital roadmap and what cloud migration approach – if any – will you require for the existing applications in these domains? A more surgical approach to cloud gets to the value faster.

Reimagine the business domain and underlying tech concurrently

Most of the value the cloud generates comes from increased agility, innovation, and resilience provided to the business rather than a lower-cost hosting replacement for traditional infrastructure as found in a data center.

Starting with your priority business domains, be sure to reimagine the domain and the underlying technology concurrently. This allows you to develop a clear view of the applications that you need to migrate to get the most value while avoiding the trap of migrating a bunch of applications that ...

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