Cloud migration is the process of moving applications, data, and other business elements from on-site computers to cloud services. Planning involves considering which applications and data are suitable, evaluating costs, choosing cloud environments like public, private or hybrid clouds, and ensuring proper governance and security. The stages of migration include pre-migration planning, the migration process of moving applications and data to the cloud in stages, and post-migration monitoring and improvement.

1. How to migrate to the
cloud
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2. Overview
● What is cloud migration?
● Planning for a cloud migration
● Performing a cloud migration
● Avoiding cloud migration risks

3. What is Cloud Migration
Cloud migration is the process of moving data, applications or
other business elements from an organization's onsite
computers to the cloud

4. PLANNING FOR CLOUD
MIGRATION1. Consider application of data
Not every business is suited for the cloud - Legacy applications,
Mission-critical workloads and Sensitive data (eg. credit card information) is
not a good fit for the public cloud. You can use a private cloud instead.
2. Evaluate costs
Many organizations move to the cloud because it's cost efficient - no Hardware
and IT staffing expenses. Businesses that use older hardware - such as earlier
versions of an Oracle database - might be more expensive to run in the cloud.
Hidden expenses - network and bandwidth costs

5. PLANNING FOR CLOUD
MIGRATION3. Choosing your cloud environment
● Public Cloud - provides us with a highly scalable environment. This cloud has a
pay-per-usage model.
● Private Cloud - In an on-premises environment, this cloud offers a lot more control
to the company.
● Hybrid Cloud - Offers the best of both worlds - Private and public clouds.
4. Governance and security
● Governance methods that worked on on-premises systems won't work for the
cloud
● Organizations must shape their governance strategies to rely less on internal
security and control, and more on their cloud provider's of
● Planning ahead for potential breaches, failovers and disaster recovery is a must for
organizations that are considering cloud migration.

6. PLANNING FOR CLOUD
MIGRATION
5. Prepare for cloud to cloud migration challenges
● Company’s need to take into consideration the challenges associated with
cloud migration
● There are third party tools to help with this, for example, Accenture and
Racemi.
● However, some enterprise architect their own services.
6. Define the cloud migration strategy
● Once all the above aspects have been looked into, a cloud migration
strategy needs to be formed.

7. THE STAGES OF MIGRATION
Pre-Migration Migration Post Migration
● Consider the application you
require and the data you have
● Outline the costs
● Know which aspects of the
business will be migrated and
what type of cloud model
supports this
● Evaluate the necessary level of
security required
● Prepare all members of the
organisation for the challenges
ahead
● Assess whether we can still
reuse our existing resource
management and configuration
tools
● Start small and simple to be
consistent and transparent to your
staff
● Examine internal processes and
determine which ones should be
automated by cloud services
● Determine which business
applications should move to the
cloud first
● Implement security at different
levels of data exposure according
to your evaluations
● Monitor the status of your
newly migrated systems
● Evaluate the efficiency of
your cloud services by
engaging with the users and
getting feedback
● Verify the secure systems
that you have set up and
possible vulnerabilities
● Always keep an eye out for
possible improvements in the
future!

8. WHAT SERVICES DO WE
GUARANTEE?
We guarantee a 99.9% uptime.
Total privacy of any information stored with us
Quick and reliable access to any data stored with us
We guarantee to always improve our infrastructure and software to provide the
client with the best possible experience.