As we mentioned in the previous section, there could be various reasons for migrating to the cloud, and those reasons play an essential role in your cloud migration journey. They will help you determine a migration strategy and prioritize applications. In addition to primary business drivers for cloud migration, you could have more reasons related to the data center, business, application, team, and workload for cloud migration.
Often, migration projects adopt multiple strategies and utilize different tools accordingly. The migration strategy will influence the time it takes to migrate and how the applications are grouped for the migration process. The following diagram shows some of the commonly used strategies for migrating existing applications to the cloud:
As shown in the preceding diagram, an organization can take a mix of migration strategies; for example, if an application-hosted operating system is at its end of life...
