{"id":4777,"date":"2021-04-16T09:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:59:22","slug":"3-proven-tips-for-carrying-out-successful-cloud-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/3-proven-tips-for-carrying-out-successful-cloud-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Proven Tips for Carrying Out Successful Cloud Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Migrating corporate data, enterprise-grade applications<\/a>, and different key business resources to the cloud have been on the to-do list for most businesses for some time now. The efforts to migrate to a cloud ecosystem have only ramped up with the coronavirus outbreak followed by stay-at-home orders and lockdowns. Businesses are accelerating the pace of cloud migration because they have to support a remote workforce.<\/p>\n

Despite feeling a strong need for cloud solutions, enterprises cannot and should not approach migration without a strong strategy. That is why we are sharing three recommendations that will help businesses migrate to a cloud environment effectively.<\/p>\n

Recommendation #1: Ensure the cloud strategy aligns with the business strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Business strategies vary to a great degree from one enterprise to another. So, it is important for infrastructure and operations leaders and enterprise architects to hammer out a cloud strategy that is in sync with an organization\u2019s overarching business strategies. Whether the organization follows a B2B model or a B2C one, the alignment between its business strategy and cloud strategy is integral.<\/p>\n

Recommendation #2: Prioritize cost reduction as the key driver<\/strong><\/p>\n

Questions related to the cloud\u2019s cost always buzz in the mind of a business leader who is planning to migrate to a cloud environment. Is cloud cheaper than other on-premise alternatives? The answer to this question depends on multiple factors; these factors include the nature of workloads, the variety of cloud services opted for, and an organization\u2019s specific circumstances. Generally, most businesses that have successfully carried out cloud implementations<\/a> benefit from speed and innovation instead of costs.<\/p>\n

Recommendation #3: Analyze all the potential migration routes<\/strong><\/p>\n

For most businesses, a cloud strategy comprises a concrete plan that features the possible routes of moving to an off-premise environment. Generally, these routes include rehosting, refactoring, and rebuilding. Businesses leverage rehosting for migrating an application with nominal efforts. On the other hand, refactoring enables businesses to use a cloud-managed database instead of moving the legacy databases to the cloud and internally controlling them. Last, rebuilding helps businesses recreate a strategic application that has a cloud-native architecture. With this architecture, the application will have elastic scalability and will operate on a pay-per-use pricing model.<\/p>\n

Is it time for your business to make a move?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Businesses that want to thrive in the world that has changed by the COVID-19 pandemic should embrace the cloud. However, moving to the cloud is easier said than done unless a business has a migration road map in place. For building a robust migration strategy, we have shared our top three recommendations that will help accelerate the pace at which businesses step into the cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Migrating corporate data, enterprise-grade applications, and different key business resources to the cloud have been on the to-do list for most businesses for some time now. The efforts to migrate to a cloud ecosystem have only ramped up with the coronavirus outbreak followed by stay-at-home orders and lockdowns. Businesses are accelerating the pace of cloud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"services":[418],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-computing","services-cloud-enablement","industry-technology","technology-cloud"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16672,"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/16672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flexsin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}