Adopting the right strategy and best practices for cloud data migration
                     Adopting the right strategy 
and best practices for cloud 
data migration
Introduction
Cloud data migration can be difficult, expensive, time-consuming, and 
complex. However, cloud migration is the best option for businesses that 
need better scalability, agility, and security. 
To perform cloud migration efficiently, businesses can create a 
cloud migration strategy that can help them to put all assets in their 
infrastructure, including data, services, and applications, into the cloud. 
An effective migration strategy helps determine whether existing 
workloads should be replaced, discontinued, re-written, or kept on-
premises.
To successfully migrate enterprise data to the cloud, a strategy must 
prioritize workloads, determine migration plans for each workload, 
develop a pilot, and then modify the strategy according to the pilot 
results.
Cloud Migration Process
1. Plan your Migration 
Develop an effective plan to migrate to the cloud after understanding the 
reasons for migration and consider which strategy can help to take further 
steps.
2. Choose your Cloud Environment
Identify the cloud migration solutions you want to adopt per your 
current and future needs, whether hybrid cloud, public cloud, or 
multi-cloud.
3. Migrate your Apps and Data
After securing your app and data, move them to the cloud. If you 
plan carefully, your cloud application migration will go smoothly.
4. Validate Post-Move Success
It is essential to compare the technical and business performance of 
applications before and after the cloud migration to determine the success of 
the migration.
Best Practices for Cloud Migration
1. Create a framework for cloud governance
It is critical to developing a cloud-based governance structure with defined 
standards that enables firms to ensure safe cloud use because security and 
compliance are among the top issues for businesses shifting to cloud 
computing.
2. Network optimization
The open internet is the standard network used by cloud service 
providers. When switching to cloud services, users must transition from 
high-speed gigabit local networks to considerably slower internet 
connections. So, look for an ISP that can provide a higher-quality, quicker 
service.
3. Provide staff with early training
It makes sense to train your personnel as soon as you can on the cloud 
platform you decide to use. It is necessary to arrange a series of training 
sessions to bring staff from various teams up to speed on cloud concepts 
because of the degree of abstraction that cloud systems offer and the 
noticeably different structure of cloud-based public systems.
4. Support Services Provider Leverage
When you've finished your study, you've thought about—or at the very 
least, you should have—the quantity of assistance you'll get. Any cloud 
migration project will significantly benefit from having knowledgeable 
support staff.
5. Test Your Migration to Ensure It's Correct
Testing should be conducted frequently during migration to identify and fix 
any problems. Different scenarios can be explored by clients, and the impact 
on dependencies between applications and the migration process can be 
evaluated.
Conclusion
Selecting the right migration path for your applications is challenging, 
and getting the migration right the first time is crucial to avoid a 
lengthy rework cycle. In addition, the varying migration paths of the 
various applications need to be assessed through the unraveling of 
the service dependencies.
Trigent cloud migration services are highly optimized and designed 
especially to improve business performance. Our services include migration 
of infrastructure, on-premise applications, and platforms and re-architecting 
existing and legacy applications for deployment in the cloud.
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