what is cloud migration?

• It is the process of moving data, applications and other business elements from an
organization’s on-premise systems to a cloud-based environment.
• This process can be used to move software or data to a public, private or hybrid
cloud structure, depending on the individual needs of the enterprise.
• Cloud migration can also be used to move from one cloud service to another this
process is inter-cloud transfers or a cloud-to-cloud migration.
Why is cloud migration important?
• Cloud migration is a process of transition or change. When an organization
decides to use a cloud service, the goal is to treat computing as a utility -- like
electricity, water or natural gas.
• The highly scalable, pay-as-you-go nature of the public cloud provides businesses
with the flexibility to use only the resources needed, for only as long as needed,
and pay only for those resources that are actually consumed.
• It's an attractive paradigm shift that entices businesses of all sizes and verticals.
• Successful cloud migration is an important business process as much as it is a
technical process. Any cloud migration must start with clear business use cases
and goals.

migration in the cloud may be profitable for your business.

• Cost savings: Cloud services are typically priced on a pay-as-you-go model, which
can help businesses save money as they scale and adjust to changing needs. Cloud
migrations may significantly reduce the cost of maintaining and updating
software, hardware, and other IT infrastructure.
• Increased productivity: By migrating to the cloud, a company can eliminate the
need for manual tasks associated with on-premises systems, freeing up valuable
time and resources. Cloud-based software and applications can also be accessed
from anywhere, enabling employees to work remotely and collaborate more
efficiently.
• Improved security: Cloud providers typically offer enterprise-grade security
features, including encryption and identity management, which can help businesses
protect their data from unauthorized access. In addition, cloud services are often
more resilient to security threats than traditional on-premises systems.
• Greater flexibility: Cloud migration helps businesses rapidly respond to changing
customer needs and market conditions. Cloud services can be quickly scaled up or
down, enabling enterprises to deploy swiftly or decommission services as needed.
It makes it easier for companies to quickly expand their operations without
investing in more infrastructure.
key benefits of cloud migration?
Migration in cloud is an excellent way to increase a business’s IT infrastructure’s
scalability, reliability, and security.
Expense optimization
• The transition from CapEx to OpEx is a significant advantage of cloud migration.
With CapEx, businesses must make upfront investments in local IT infrastructure
and software, which can be costly. OpEx, on the other hand, allows companies to
pay for IT services and resources on a pay-as-you-go basis.
High performance, reliability, fault tolerance and security
• Cloud platforms use automated resources to manage workloads, making
apps highly available and responsive. Cloud infrastructure enhances
applications’ performance to scale rapidly to meet user demand.
• It is designed to be resilient and redundant to have self-healing capabilities,
keeping apps available online despite hardware failure. It allows applications to
continue running without interruption, ensuring users can access data and services
with minimal disruption.

Greater accessibility from any device or location

• Cloud computing allows users to easily share and access data from any device or
location, so long as they have an internet connection. It makes it possible for teams
to work together more efficiently and effectively, even when they are
geographically dispersed.
THE SEVEN-STEP MODEL OF MIGRATION INTO A CLOUD
The Seven-Step Model of Cloud Migration provides a structured approach to moving
your applications and data from an on-premises environment to the cloud. It offers a
clear roadmap to minimize risks and ensure a smooth transition.
Here's a breakdown of the seven steps:
Step1: Cloud migration assessments (Assessment and Planning)
• This step involves thoroughly evaluating the company’s existing IT infrastructure
and workloads to determine what needs to be migrated to the cloud and the
potential impact on the business.
• It includes assessing the current hardware and software setup, data and storage
requirements, and application dependencies.

Step 2: Isolating (Choose the Right Cloud Provider)

In this step, the company chooses a cloud service provider that aligns with its business
needs, goals, and budget. Factors to consider include security, data privacy, reliability,
scalability, and support. and explore different service models (like IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
and deployment options (public, private, hybrid) to find the best .it for your
organization's requirements.
Step 3: Mapping (Design of a cloud migration plan and strategy)
• This step includes creating a detailed plan and strategy for the migration in the
cloud, including identifying and mitigating potential risks, outlining the timeline
and milestones, and determining the resources needed.
Step 4: Re-architect (Prepare Your Environment)
At that stage, preparing the company’s existing environment and data for migration
to the cloud is going. By ensuring they meet the necessary requirements. This might
involve:

Upgrading software
Optimizing performance
Resolving dependencies, and
Verifying data integrity to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud.
Step 5:Agument (Implementation of the migration plan)
The company executes the migration plan and moves the workloads and data to the
cloud. At this step, configuring the cloud environment, migrating the data, and
deploying the applications are provided.

Step 6: Test (Testing and Validation)

This step thoroughly tests the migrated workloads and data to ensure they function as
expected in the cloud environment.
It includes performing functional and non-functional testing, verifying that data has
been migrated accurately, and ensuring that all application dependencies are working
as intended.
Step 7: Optimize (Go Live and Ongoing monitoring)
• Once testing is complete, deploy your applications and workloads in the cloud
environment. Effective ongoing management is essential to ensure the success of
the cloud migration and realize the benefits of that move.
• Once the migration is complete, the company must continuously monitor and
manage the cloud environment to ensure it remains secure, reliable, and efficient.
• It includes performing regular security audits, monitoring resource usage and
performance, and making updates and upgrades to ensure the cloud environment
meets the company’s needs.
Step-1: Cloud migration assessments comprise assessments to understand the issues involved in the
specific case of migration at the application level or the code, the design, the architecture, or usage
levels. These assessments are about the cost of migration as well as about the ROI that can be
achieved in the case of production version.
Step-2: Isolating all systemic and environmental dependencies of the enterprise application
components within the captive data center.
Step-3: Generating the mapping constructs between what shall possibly remain in the local captive
data center and what goes onto the cloud.
Step-4: substantial part of the enterprise application needs to be rearchitected, redesigned, and re-
implemented on the cloud
Step-5: We leverage the intrinsic features of the cloud computing service to augment our enterprise
application in its own small ways.
Step-6: We validate and test the new form of the enterprise application with an extensive test suite that
comprises testing the components of the enterprise application on the cloud as well
Step-7: Test results could be positive or mixed. In the latter case, we iterate and optimize as
appropriate. After several such optimizing iterations, the migration is deemed successful