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HOW TO PLAN A PAIN-FREE CLOUD MIGRATION

Are cloud migration fears keeping you awake at night? Sleep well, friend. When
properly planned, moving digital assets into the cloud can be easier than you
think.
John Edwards
Technology Journalist & Author
January 25, 2022
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When it comes to IT project challenges, few are more intimidating than a
full-fledged cloud migration. Fortunately, with the help of some careful
planning, a cloud transition can be successfully accomplished with minimal
effort and disruption.



The way organizations approach mass migrations to the cloud are rapidly
changing. “Methodical and strategic modernizations have replaced the expedited
‘lift and shift’ approach,” says Alicia Johnson, consulting principal,
technology transformation, at professional services firm EY.

The ability to compete at today’s locally and globally required speeds continues
to be a driving force for companies heading into the cloud. For enterprises
looking to the cloud for agility gains, an operating model transformation is
more often than not required to optimize cloud benefits, Johnson observes.
“Organizations that implement product operating model optimization, and change
the way they work and operate, often reap the most benefits,” she adds.


FIRST STEPS: CLOUD MIGRATION

When planning a cloud migration, it's important to work closely with senior
management, the entire IT team, and the employees who will be directly impacted
by the transition, says Jeremy Rambarran, cloud solutions manager at the New
York College of Podiatric Medicine and a professor at the Touro College Graduate
School of Technology. “Senior management will need to be aware of the major
changes taking place within their technical infrastructure and be willing to
allocate the funds necessary for moving internal assets and their data to the
cloud,” he adds.




Before planning begins, it's important to resolve several key questions, says
Lee Voigt, a principal with audit, tax, and consulting services provider RSM US.
“Why are you migrating to the cloud? What is your ultimate cloud play? What are
your core expectations for the cloud? How have you solved the cloud technical
competency gap? What is the plan for your business applications? How will you
manage your cloud assets once they are in place?” Finding the answers to these
questions, and other issues that may arise during the planning process, will
help ensure a pain-free cloud migration, he notes.

Cloud migration should never be addressed as a purely technical project. “When
it is, the divide between business and IT often widens,” warns Cindi Howson,
chief data strategy officer at business intelligence analytics software provider
ThoughtSpot. Infrastructure modernization without visible business benefits is
rarely successful. “To realize the full potential of the shift to cloud,
business stakeholders are key to ensuring that cloud migrations are driving real
business impact,” she says.




MIGRATION PLANNING POINTS

Think big but start small, Howson advises. Begin with a single use case that's
high enough in value and low enough in complexity, she suggests. “Use this as a
learning opportunity to show what will change with the cloud in terms of
technology, people, and process.”

Business and engineering groups should work as a single team, Johnson says. When
the cloud is approached as an IT-only effort, it can stymie innovation and will
usually fail to bring new capabilities. “Organizations that implement product
operating model optimization, and change the way they work and operate, often
reap the most benefits,” she notes.


AVOIDING CLOUD MIGRATION MISTAKES

The biggest mistake organizations make when planning a cloud migration is
failing to reach their desired outcomes or even meet their minimum requirements.
“When an organization doesn’t spend enough time plotting out their desired
outcomes, they often end up implementing a first-phase cloud for a specific
workload that gets completely rebuilt when subsequent workloads are plotted for
migration,” Voigt says. “When an organization doesn’t spend enough time
capturing its minimum requirements, adoption suffers when internal and external
customers are adversely impacted by the migration.”

Another cloud migration mistake is believing that operational costs will
immediately decrease as soon as digital assets are pulled into the cloud. “When
migrating to the cloud, your costs for electrical and cooling needs will
eventually decrease as you move more servers and storage to the online
environment,” Rambarran says. “This will eventually reduce your organization's
operational costs, as you will then be utilizing your cloud provider's hardware
for your hosted solutions.” Just don't expect the change to happen overnight.

Yet another potentially costly error is assuming that data will always be backed
up and secured by the cloud provider. This is not always the case since
providers are as subject to attacks as any other enterprise -- perhaps even more
so since they're such a data-rich target. Rambarran advises protecting
enterprise data with additional firewalls and other strong security protection
measures.


CLOUD MIGRATION TAKEAWAY

Planning is just one part of the migration process. Culture, people, change
management, and process are the other parts, Howson says. “Throwing new
technology at employees without giving them sufficient time and training to
adapt and figure out new skills and processes is not effective,” she cautions.
“CTOs, CIOs, CDOs and [other] leaders within the organization also need to make
a plan for upskilling employees to take full advantage of the new technology,”
Howson explains.

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