Cloud adoption continues to gain momentum, but organizations are finding limited success in their cloud migrations to date. The reason? Poor organizational planning and inaccurate cost estimates during discovery and planning can stymie success before the migration even begins. Organizations must re-evaluate what they are doing before they begin their migration, or success may prove elusive during it. This CloudHealth Technologies-commissioned profile of US IT decision makers at firms that are currently migrating or have migrated workloads to public cloud platforms investigates common strategies and challenges associated with public cloud migration in order to identify what organizations can do during discovery and planning to ensure a successful migration. Read the full report here: http://go.cloudhealthtech.com/17q2_wp_due-diligence-cornerstone-public-cloud-migration-success.html

1. Challenges of the
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CloudHealth Technologies surveyed 108 IT decision
makers in the U.S. at firms that are currently migrating or have migrated workloads to public cloud (IaaS). An independent
research firm found due diligence in the discovery and planning phases is critical to ensure a successful migration.
BEFORE:Discovery/Planning
DURING:Executing on Plan
AFTER:Evaluating Results
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said identifying best fit workloads
for public cloud infrastructure was
important or very important
90%
45%
Lessons Learned
46%
37%
COST was the biggest challenge
during and after migration – both costs
associated with migration as well as
the unpredictability of cost post
migration
PROCESS – many security policies were
established before cloud and will need
to be adjusted in order to streamline
cloud projects
ORGANIZATIONAL READINESS –
developers were overburdened with
redesign efforts and existing staff did
not have the skills sets to help
said #1 migration challenge is COST
CloudHealth helps plan successful cloud migrations, starting with careful planning and identification of workloads that are
candidates for migration. Once migrated, CloudHealth makes cloud management easier by providing your organization with
visibility, optimization, and governance. To learn more, visit www.cloudhealthtech.com.
43%43%
37%37% said #2 migration challenge is GETTING SECURITY APPROVAL
58% found that costs to run
workloads on a public
cloud were higher than
their pre-migration
estimate
77%77%
said that the
unpredictability of
costs was their
biggest challenge
after their migration
of organizations plan to
invest in tools to increase
performance visibility for
their next migration
of organizations
plan to increase
education of costs,
risk, and benefits
associated with
cloud usage
of organizations are currently migrating
workloads to the public cloud
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