Driving Business Modernization Relies on an Effective Cloud Migration Strategy

5 Tips To Transform Your Business With Cloud Migration

Clear your path to success with smart technology investments for effective business modernization.

Think of data like business currency, guiding decision-making and operations. And with data sets expanding, tools are evolving to ensure data security for storage and sharing. Savvy business leaders and CIOs know that adaptation to change is vital to success—starting with strategic technology investments.

When leaders make effective investments that reduce the costs of their tools and technologies, they free up resources to empower innovation and drive digital business transformation.

Armando Franco

Director of Business Modernization Services

Armando is a strategic technology leader at TEKsystems Global Services. He is an expert in DevOps and next-generation cloud solutions that build lasting organizational value.

Steps To Develop Your Cloud Migration Strategy

Cloud technology is one of the most valuable investments leaders can make right now for securing and managing data in the cloud. The key? Developing an intentional cloud modernization strategy through assessments, application rationalization, automation and process documentation.

This process helps standardize cloud foundations with repeatable and reusable services that accommodate all cloud providers. It also creates a foundation to streamline go-to-market strategies and provider-agnostic products.

Get started with these steps to build out your cloud migration program:

1. Conduct a cloud readiness assessment—an essential measurement to determine the prerequisites of your cloud migration strategy and understand its status in the environment. The cloud readiness assessment will uncover the intricacies of the data, security readiness, map dependencies and integration points and assess the overall status of the technical environment.

2. Decide if a secure lift and shift (rehost) of your data is possible or whether you need to retire or refactor your application through a cloud modernization effort.

3. Create a stable cloud foundation and path to host the workloads. Consider building an automated pipeline to back up the workloads and ensure the security of the data if needed.

4. Implement the cloud migration factory to quickly rehost workloads from on-premises to the cloud. Otherwise, refactor applications into their core components, and then rebuild and replatform them in a microservices or event-driven architecture pattern. This process can include more or fewer steps, depending on the status of your workloads. Security, agility and careful analysis are crucial.

5. Operationalize how your team will monitor the application for quality, consistency and business success. The newly modernized platform can open new opportunities to use tools like generative AI technology to solve security problems and implement threat detection for global data.

Modernize Business With Effective Partnership

The right technology investments help you maintain an edge over the competition, upskill your workforce and reduce business costs—starting with a customized cloud migration strategy. The right cloud services partner can help you build and scale a cloud migration factory with standardized templates to onboard tools and processes for a quick, repeatable solution. Launch your business modernization strategy with the right partnership to empower your people and grow your success.

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