FINAL WORD
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Five steps to
successful and
confident cloud
migration, even
in a pandemic
Due to the current circumstances, businesses
are being forced to migrate workloads to the
cloud. Geoff Barlow, Cloud Architect at Node4,
offers several ways a company can build
confidence in their cloud migration project.
Recent events have caused a huge upheaval for many
businesses as they face the need to maintain business
operations amid the global pandemic of COVID-19. Enabling
remote working is likely top of the list for almost all businesses in
the UK as lockdown continues and this means that migrating to the
cloud has become an urgent need, rather than a luxury.
For many businesses, running a cloud migration project is a daunting
prospect, whether that be to a private or public cloud setting.
Regardless of the reason for the migration, there is going to be
significant change in the organisation. Key areas such as how IT
resources will be managed, monitored and consumed, changes
in approach when it comes to risk and security or simply the fact
the customer is going to be reliant on someone else for its critical
systems, can trigger mild panic.
For all these reasons, the most important aspect of a migration
project is confidence building. Whether the ‘customer’ is the wider
business, or a business is running a migration project for a different
organisation, all organisations are going to need to sell confidence
in abundance to ensure a successful migration. This arguably trumps
everything else in terms of priority.
There are several ways a company can build confidence in their cloud
migration project, even when they are doing it under pressure:
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