Steps to a safe and successful cloud migration

The cloud market has grown as companies realize they can host everything in a secure, low-maintenance structure. When migrating from on-premise to the cloud, although it's not a straightforward process, there are essential steps for it to be done safely and successfully.
 

Optimizing the cloud strategy

It is essential to communicate the migration to the cloud to IT and company stakeholders, involving everyone in the process so that they are aware of its benefits. For the best success, in addition to everyone being aware of the changes, you need to carry out strategic planning to get value from the cloud, such as choosing the correct cloud model and speeding up the migration of your applications and data.
 

Building a secure company by adopting the cloud

Although the cloud is not a physical installation, there is the necessary protection to keep a company's information private. Before making the migration, it is necessary to check each person, administrator account, application, bot, and process, identify the most valuable assets, and understand what you want to protect. From here, you can identify the main risks to these assets and draw up a tactical plan to resolve them.

It is advantageous to take advantage of the security capabilities integrated into the cloud service provider's platform, such as Microsoft Azure, which will help to reduce unnecessary costs. However, companies mustn't forget good practices for maintaining security. Security should be a business enabler, so it's necessary to balance security and controls to avoid adding barriers and negatively affecting employee productivity.
 

Innovating with applications

If a company has legacy applications, it can migrate to the cloud for new developments and gradually decouple the old applications. 


The cloud can increase the agility and scalability of a business, but for that to happen, it needs to undergo a safe and successful migration. You can rely on Hydra iT for this entire process. Contact us for more information!