Techniques for Successful Cloud Migration Planning

Planning is essential for every infrastructure to build a solid foundation and for any IT infrastructure moving to cloud, it is best to find out the requirements in a row to earn the benefits of cloud migration practices. If you look at the top level, the application will analyze the best mechanism to serve with some specific requirements of business whereas the bottom layer will determine the technical feasibility of the system.

Bucketing down the attributes is the best way to synchronize the strategy:

• License Renewal of software and hardware assets.
• Upgrading the application environment with latest enhancements in tools.
• Determining the exact requirements of datacenters based on the content size of any application.
• Moving for a secured location on network.
• To protect data breach, vulnerability, exploit for suspicious behavior with scanning activities, multiple login attempts and irregular traffic behavior.
• To diagnose patterns of potential abuse.
• To analyze performance architecture, financial parameters, risk, operations and security/compliance.
• To minimize the maintenance expenses for physical assets like number of computer laboratories, physical machines and equipment.
• Other network and virtual machine setup requirements to align for the latest updates in technology.
• Upgrading with full planning and backup scenarios and at the right time while application services are ready to relocate on cloud.
• To automate processes for innovative solutions for Web3.0 and to be competitive with current market trends.

The Top – hierarchy

The main objective of cloud migration is to transform your business with key attributes such as machine learning, data analytics and to utilize the cloud-based services with their maximum usage. Keeping this goal in focus, the first task is to analyze the technical scenarios for any application:

1. Cataloging data with respect to business scenarios and processes.
2. Determining the compliance, sovereignty and security factors.
3. Determining the authentication and authorization configurations at system and application level.
4. Architectural requirements for data, pairing and application life anticipation, and to determine the potential requirements.

5. Operational requirements for integration, maintenance, monitoring and reporting.

Analyzing above scenarios will help the on-premise; remove any obstacle in moving and transitioning to cloud.

The financial benefits are:

1. Effective operational functioning.
2. Increased ROI.
3. Capitalize on Availability, Scalability, and Elasticity.

With this approach user can prioritize the system and application working scenarios towards a solid and structured foundation.

The Bottom – hierarchy

This will identify the technical aspects around the system setup and application requirements.

1. The exact calculation for number of processors required at cloud datacenters.
2. System disk space, memory and data disks requirements on cloud platform.
3. Network scenarios for interface cards, load balancing etc.
4. Operating system and database version determination.
5. Determining IP configuration scenarios with IPv6.
6. Third Party plugins or software packages for the current application or system requirements.

UnifyCloud’s planning and execution toolkit will summarize all the key points for on-premise infrastructure to move with stable and authenticated, automated solutions for evaluating your IT system and infrastructure. On evaluating these scenarios, the business operational and functional teams can work with the specific business domains to establish a theme for top priorities. It is best to start with prioritized and classified work to move towards complex requirements while migrating your business on cloud.

CloudAtlas® Cloud Migration Tools provide insight into your legacy systems and provide you with a Cloud Strategy to migrate your selected applications to the Cloud (SaaS, IaaS and PaaS).