How can you approach cloud migration and adoption projects?

Start by understanding your current IT setup, aligning it with your business goals, and identifying any challenges along the way. This assessment lays the groundwork for crafting a cloud strategy that fits your specific requirements. Personalize your approach with real-life tales, selecting strategies that align seamlessly with your project's distinctive requirements. Weave a migration plan with personal threads, highlighting effective strategies and sidestepping common pitfalls based on real experiences. After migration, share tales of fine-tuning your cloud environment, enhancing efficiency, and navigating the cost-effectiveness landscape.

Em um projeto anterior, antes de iniciar a migra??o para a nuvem, conduzimos uma avalia??o completa da infraestrutura existente. Isto incluiu a análise da capacidade de hardware, software, e a prontid?o da equipe para a mudan?a. Identificamos que a educa??o e treinamento de nossa equipe seriam cruciais para uma transi??o bem-sucedida. Assim, investimos em sess?es de treinamento para familiarizar a equipe com as novas tecnologias e práticas.

When you're moving a system to the cloud, there might be occasions where you need to rewrite or upgrade parts of the infrastructure to achieve the expected results from the migration process. That is why a good place to kick off cloud migration is by thoroughly assessing your current infrastructure. This will help you find any gaps and potential risks that might affect a smooth migration to the cloud.

Cloud migration and adoption projects require careful planning, execution, and ongoing management to ensure success and Need to Define Objectives and Scope.

In order to deliver an affective migration, you must start off by understanding the business goals, what will be the end benefits? As such, you need to meet with the key stakeholders to understand their existing challenges and readiness for a migration. Then you can move onto evaluating the hardware/software that will be involved, before defining your migration plan that takes the above points under consideration. Finally, you need to present your solution, covering off important points relevant to your customer (such as security, governance, performance) and agree on a schedule of delivery that includes regular catch-ups throughout the migration.

O planejamento foi essencial para garantir uma migra??o eficiente. Criamos um roteiro detalhado, priorizando aplica??es e dados, e estabelecendo cronogramas realistas. Também consideramos as implica??es de seguran?a e conformidade, assegurando que todos os padr?es relevantes fossem atendidos.

Post assesment is done and reports have to evaluated and readines and goals have to be set for each migration and its approachs have to documented. what are risk, what can be mitigated. what type of migiration is to arived at (lift and shift )

In my experience, the approach of more than one alternative provides ease in analyzing not only the technological part due to its complexity, but also the cost part and even allows mixing approaches to obtain the best cost/benefit ratio. The use of critical thinking helps us ensure that the alternatives proposed are truly aligned with the business objectives.

Depende del tiempo que se tenga para realizar las migraciones, si se tiene premura, lo ideal sería migrar las aplicaciones tal cual como fase 1 para no perder operación, sin embargo el costo puede ser elevado y no verse las eficiencias de usar la nube. Por otro lado, tomarse el tiempo para definir muy bien la nueva arquitectura a usar, con los componentes adecuados incluyendo hasta pruebas de aplicación para verificar el funcionamiento adecuado, podría ser el camino ideal.

Based on my practical experiences, the topic is divided into two parts. Either you have a new project, and this is the easiest way. The more difficult one is that you have an existing project inside the data center and you want to convert to cloud services. This requires effort and work to avoid and reduce the downtime for the conversion, and it also requires high expertise from external companies. As well as the person responsible for the project from within.

Todas mudan?as de projetos precisamos antes nos alinhar com as descri??es de risco hoje no mercado. Temos que ter Backup de Dados, ter clausulas contratuais de LGPD - Lei Geral de Prote??o de Dados, de nossos clientes. e Ter SLA (Service Level Agreement) nos contratos iniciais. Além de testes iniciais de operacionalidade.

Plans are to be prepared Over all project plan with timelines integrated with other plans like communcation plan, Stakeholder plan Risk management plan, track the depences of resources, Testing etc which the project will consume

In my experience, good project planning, in addition to the use of methodologies proven to be effective, must ensure that communication is a fundamental part of it and this is facilitated by having the knowledge and responsibilities of all the roles involved (communications matrix and matrix of roles and responsibilities). Additionally, the multidisciplinary preparation of a risk matrix and its related mitigation measures help the planning to be executed in accordance with the estimated times while mitigating an always present risk: project deviation.

al tener una buena planificación, sobretodo gestionando impactos y riesgos e incluso armando una plan de gestión de cambio, la ejecución debería ser más fluida y por tanto la migración debería ser transparente para la operación y los interesados.

One way helps in this. We must have before our eyes how to deal with the non-stoppage of services and choose the appropriate time in which the conversion process takes place, especially with already existing projects. However, in the case of implementing a new project to start a new service, this requires moving forward with the steps and time of project delivery and testing the safety elements. And backup copies as well

Execute cloud migration projects by adopting a phased approach. Start with a comprehensive assessment of existing infrastructure, identifying applications suitable for migration. Prioritize based on business impact and complexity. For instance, in a retail setting, migrating customer-facing applications may be prioritized for enhanced user experience. Leverage automation tools for data migration to ensure accuracy and efficiency. Implement a pilot migration for validation, addressing any challenges before full-scale deployment. Communicate transparently with stakeholders, emphasizing benefits like scalability and cost savings. Regularly assess performance metrics to refine the migration strategy and ensure a successful transition.

In my experience, during the migration process, it is important to use best practices for whatever component or object is being migrated. The above facilitates the diagnosis and solution of any incident, including those that may not have been considered in the risk matrix.

I assure you that it is possible that you will not need this transformation and that you are able to cover all your requirements internally. This will save you huge costs with the cloud. Study the needs well before making the decision.

Sometimes you start a transformation project with a plan to use resources and servers as a first, expecting a high percentage of costs, and after running the project you must measure the situation because it is possible to reduce these elements to reduce the amounts paid according to the volume of use within the cloud.

Cloud resource can become expensive if we dont have an optimation of resource planned prior to migrattion. the best part of a cloud environment is scalabilty. Once scaled up. the costs also go up. Implement on demand scalling.

In the field of public cloud, for example, it is important to make use of the tools (advisor) available from the different providers to optimize the resources that we have migrated. These tools have the ability to even offer guides to make improvements that mean cost savings. In my experience, the use of proactive monitoring technologies also helps to understand the real use of the resources that we have migrated and to make decisions for the benefit of the business. A system can be stabilized, consolidated, expanded, reduced or eliminated if not necessary.

Before the final step, teams are to be made aware in the form of trainings on what the state in which cloud enviroment they will be working, what are the best pratices and how do manage accidently deletion

In addition to what has already been discussed in the article, documenting each and every step is key. This comes in handy when you want to add new features or enhance the existing ones. A strong architecture of your CRM can help you maximize the ROI of your investment.

In addition to the execution phase of cloud migration, consider meticulous planning. Conduct a thorough risk assessment, identifying potential challenges like data security and compliance. Establish a clear governance framework to ensure compliance with industry regulations. Collaborate with stakeholders to align the migration strategy with business goals. Address the cultural shift by providing training to the team and fostering a cloud-friendly mindset. Develop a robust rollback plan to mitigate any unforeseen issues during migration. Regularly review and update the strategy to align with evolving business needs and technological advancements.