The pure AMent of the digital assets needed to operate today is dizzying. Accounting for each application, Word Doc, presentation or piece of internal data, even small and medium -sized enterprises can collect assets in tens of thousands. That’s a lot to watch when it migrates your business and all its assets into the cloud.
The truth is that the migration of the cloud requires a thoughtful strategy and the right resources to ensure smoothly. Here are several ways to guarantee an easy cloud migration.
Why migrate to the cloud?
For SMB, migration makes a lot of sense into the cloud. This makes it easier to scal your business, reduce your IT costs and improve organization in your company. Functional advantages are clear, but indirectly, migration into the cloud can help your business keep up and ideally overcome competition. It is estimated that business can save up to 20% of their IT services by switching to the cloud.
In addition, businesses can also save much more money – and space – by removing the hardware request to host your own data. When considering the cost of cooling, maintenance, IT and more to the equation, the migration of your business into the cloud is steadfast.
Your go-it Cloud migration strategy
Over the years, there have been many cloud migration strategies, all using abbreviations focused on R. In fact, they have more RS than the pirate that now speaks. It started with Gartner’s 5RS model, which is now going to the AWS 7RS. The RS in question to various strategies in the world of migration of the cloud. Some require a simple movement of data from one system to another, while others may be much more complicated for companies that want to significantly update their infrastructure. Here is the breakdown of the current AWS 7RS model:
- Rehost – This process is one of the simple and great choice for small and medium -sized enterprises that may not be a family with cloud services. It involves moving your entire IT infrastructure as it is on IAAS (as a service infrastructure).
- Replatform – This processing moves data from one source to an upgraded platform to increase scalabibility and flexibility. This process is great for companies that want to modernize their current platform.
- Refractor – These processes include the conversion of your platform from the ground up to the use of new technologies. Although this process is more expensive and more complex, it helps to maintain platforms on the tip of technology.
- Repair -The overlapping converts your internally managed platform to one processed third -party service provider (MSP). This process helps to reduce internal IT overhead costs and redirect them to other areas.
- Move -Rerelocating includes moving data from the data center on site to the cloud version of the same platform. This process is carried out with small or no downtime, making it an excellent choice for business that requires 24/7 access to the platform.
- Resign -These processes simply eliminate outdated applications from your platform as the first step before migration on the cloud platform.
- Keep – The opposite of withdrawal. Maintaining keeps business critical applications in its current framework while migration others into the cloud.
How to choose which Cloud migration strategy It’s right for your SMBE
Okay, so it’s a lot of RS. It depends on your current infrastructure and your future business goals. So here is the step-step process that you can see to see which migration strategy is right for you.
Understand your current infrastructure
Understanding your current IT structure is the first step in defining your next steps. Focus on which it might be necessary to go or remain. Are some outdated? When migrating to the cloud, some take care of special care? With the complete audit of your IT infrastructure, you can better understand how you should prepare forward.
What are your goals?
What are you trying to achieve from your cloud migration? Better connection? Scalabibility? Improved safety? It all depends on the current phase of your SMB and what you hope to see in the future. Creating a list of clearly cut goals you focus on will help you make it easier to choose a cloud migration strategy of the right cloud.
Audience? Private? Hybrid?
Depending on your business, your security needs may differ from the needs of other small and medium -sized enterprises. If you are dealing with highly sensitive data, you may need to choose a private cloud model for further security. But if not, the public cloud model can be more than sufficient for your needs. However, if you are looking for further flexibility, the choice of a hybrid cloud model can work best for you.
There are other solutions that can help keep your data safe by providing zero levels for each user. Cisco Duo allows unrivaled access control using a powerful multi -factor verification to ensure that your data never falls into the wrong hands.
Try, test and test again
Cloud migration is a technically demanding process that you don’t want to rush. Once you choose the right cloud model for your SMB and migration is completed, you want to make sure Everhything is in operating condition before you are with the store as usual. Create an action plan for strong testing and validation of all systems to ensure that migration is without a hinge.
And don’t forget to back up
On this internship, everything should be in operation, but there is never a bad idea to be safe. Create a plan to make a routine backup of all your data so that if anything goes wrong, you can be safe because your data is safe and Salvee.
If you want to add another security layer for your data, tools such as Cisco Umbrella’s internet gateway, add increased security for your data, while providing data loss to ensure that your most important files and applications remain unaffected.
If you are planning to migrate your business into the cloud, the Cisco team is always here to help you choose the right model for your business. We can help consult or offer solutions to make this process easier. Check out the offer today.
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