Five Steps to Effective Cloud Migration Operations
Key Takeaways
⇨ Cloud Migration Essentials: Cloud migration is now a fundamental requirement for businesses, with successful migrations accelerating market dominance through extensive value chains.
⇨ Skills and Resources Gap: A major challenge for organizations is the lack of resources and internal competencies in Cloud operations, which can be mitigated by partnering with experienced integrators and investing in training and hiring.
⇨ Security and Integration: Ensuring robust security and seamless integration between Cloud and on-premises systems is critical, with automation playing a key role in maintaining operational efficiency and scalability.
Cloud migration is now ‘table-stakes’ as they say in Las Vegas – the term itself meaning that it’s the least you need to lay down to even enter the game. Vast numbers of organizations in every business vertical have now checked the Cloud box and are starting to think about the higher-tier structures and deeper-rooted business model processes that will now govern the way they operate with Cloud.
First, let’s think about what we’re shifting here exactly; few people move house without their personal possessions – and for enterprise software users, many of their most precious assets (their crown jewels perhaps) are encapsulated and managed in an IT system of record and action, such as their SAP application landscape. These critical systems are now moving to Cloud but, the frank truth is, many businesses are not experienced enough with the Cloud computing model itself to be fully accomplished at planning the onward operational process once they get there.
Those that have successfully planned and executed their migration strategy and processes are accelerating their market dominance through the new and extensive value chains that Cloud brings. Today, Cloud migration isn’t a nightmare, it’s something that we do in our sleep and is business as usual.
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If we are to offer five key pillars for Cloud operational success to think about, they might be as illustrated on the right.
One of the biggest challenges for so many organizations is a lack of resources and a lack of internal competencies. It’s one thing to have a reasonable skills base to cover SAP (or other) operations and it’s another thing to have wide-ranging competencies in Cloud migration, deployment and management. It’s rare to find both of those competencies in one place, inside a single organization and at the right level of maturity.
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