What is Cloud Migration – Strategies, Benefits & Challenges

What are the benefits of cloud migration?

The cloud offers a variety of benefits to your business, but one of the biggest is its ability to reduce costs. As companies are adapting to new demands and working styles, they’re also accelerating a cloud transformation that will lead the way forward in the years to come. 

Benefits of Migrating to the cloud include:

High Security

The cloud service providers have a dedicated team of security experts to manage any security risks that occur. Also, cloud service providers regularly update their systems to make them more secure. Also, there are multiple backups taken to prevent any loss of data.

They also provide almost 100% uptime, ensuring the 24*7 availability of the digital assets. The end users can access it from anywhere and any device. An option to wipe off data or remove user access is available if a device is lost or stolen.

Improved Performance

The cloud service providers adopt cutting edge technology and aim to provide best in class services to their customers. They ensure that the network latency is low as they may have data centres at multiple locations. It makes it easier to access data faster from anywhere and helps companies provide a positive customer experience.

Cloud Scalability

A business can easily and quickly scale up if the workload increases. If the company wants to enter another region, it can easily do so. For an on-premise system, a business will have to purchase additional infrastructure, set it up to work with the existing systems, and align IT team personnel for managing it. It could be time-consuming.

If we consider a cloud-based solution, a business can buy additional resources as per their requirements and almost start using them instantly.

Also, in the case of lower workloads, the businesses can choose to scale down their requirements. They can pay-per-use basis and manage their workloads without affecting their performance.

Reduction in costs

Cloud migration could be very cost-effective in the longer term due to the ability to scale up or down, as mentioned above. Also, companies save a lot of money on IT operations as the cloud service provider looks after the maintenance, upgrades, and security.

Also, if a business moves on to the cloud entirely, there would be no need to buy additional infrastructure, which would otherwise be required, for an on-premise solution. The businesses will also save money, as they no longer need to worry about server back-ups, which would require them to have a replica of the existing system and maintain it. The companies with a multi-region set up need not have the set up for each location.

Also, a lean IT team can manage all the processes as the majority of the heavy lifting is done by the cloud service providers.

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Boosting the IT Team Productivity

The IT team spends the majority of its time in operational tasks like maintenance and security. If you migrate your digital assets onto the cloud, your IT team gets more time to enhance the current product and processes. They would be using their expertise to find solutions to the business challenges and focus on improving the overall performance.

It will help the business to provide better solutions to the customers. It will also encourage the IT team to create impactful business innovations, thus boosting their performance and enhance productivity.  

A business has some great benefits if they want to migrate to the cloud. But you should also know the challenges that your business might face while migrating to the cloud.