As the cloud can digitally transform a business, it’s no secret that moving to the cloud is in the mind-set of all businesses regardless of their size. For this reason, the number of companies moving their infrastructure and applications to a cloud platform has increased exponentially. Now the question isn’t whether or not a business should fully or partially move to a cloud platform. Rather, the question is which type of cloud they should be moving to -public or private or a hybrid platform.

 What is driving companies to choose the cloud?

There are a variety of reasons why businesses are moving to the cloud. The cloud provides scalability, quick deployment/implementation, ease of management, disaster recovery and more. These are all inherent benefits associated with the cloud which companies find compelling versus adhering to a legacy environment.

What does it mean to migrate to the cloud?

Even the most seasoned IT professionals, migrating legacy systems and infrastructure to a public or private cloud can be a daunting task. During the migration, it gives organizations a chance to gain insights into how to revise, rethink and improve their organization’s IT architecture.

When businesses migrate to cloud they should plan a phased implementation. When a migration is not planned thoroughly, it may result in organizations not fully capitalizing on the benefits of moving to the cloud. Also a migration from legacy systems to cloud should happen without impacting business operations, service delivery, business performance and data protection requirements.

Key questions to consider during the migration phase:

• What workload are you planning to move to the cloud?
• How much of your workload do you need to move to the cloud?
• How are you going to execute it?

As a cloud candidate, you may also have the following reservations:

• What workloads make business sense for your organization to move to the cloud?
• How will align your cloud strategy to your business and IT goals?
• You are not sure about data security; how will it be protected and where it will be located?
• How will your existing or legacy workloads will run in the cloud?

Aligning business goals and devising an effective cloud strategy is critical.

Many businesses, without a solid plan, attempt to take a leap to the cloud. To avoid this problem, chose a business partner who can provide guidance and expertise through every step of the cloud adoption journey. Finding the right cloud solution for implementation and adoption requires consulting from experts. With over 20+ years of experience, Prime Technology Group offers Cloud Advisory services. We are a partner that offers key knowledge and expertise throughout your entire journey to the cloud.

Prime provides cloud expertise through its industry-leading Cloud Advisory Services.

Cloud adoption has a much lower success rate without an experienced partner. The core of Prime’s Cloud Advisory Services is solid technical expertise in identifying the workloads of different applications and offering appropriate cloud solutions, while maintaining security and performance.

In doing so, Prime can help answer three typical questions:

• Why adopt the cloud?
• How can cloud services enhance business performance?
• What is the right platform to reduce costs without affecting both the user and customer experiences?

Prime is a partner who will understand your entire process and customize any changes you have on your cloud strategy wish list. To learn more about Prime’s Cloud Advisory Services, contact us.