Exploring the phases of cloud migration
Cloud migration is a business-driven decision. Migrating to a cloud platform usually involves end-to-end business transformation, not just technical, and can be well represented by five phases, namely Discover, Plan, Migrate, Automate, and Optimize. The following phases present a framework that is key to a successful migration.
Phase 1 – Discover
The first and foundational phase for the rest of the phases in cloud migration is the Discover phase. Organizations not investing in this phase are bound to fail, especially if an organization affects many teams and touches applications with complex dependencies.
Understanding aspects such as the technologies used by the current workload's landscape, compliance requirements, dependencies within the applications, infrastructure needs, network, and cost structure helps you to identify relationships that cannot be found in any application implementation documentation. This context can...