Technology Migration

Technology helps increase the efficiency of systems, products and services. It helps track and streamline processes, maintain data flow and manage contacts and employee records. In fact, this increased efficiency in operation helps reduce costs as well as enables the business to grow rapidly.

These are the most commonly used approaches:

• Rehosting
• Re-platforming
• Repurchasing
• Refactoring
• Retaining
• Retiring

These strategies are commonly referred to as “the 6 R’s of cloud migration”.

As your organization prepares for cloud migration, it is vital that your IT team maintains a comprehensive view of all infrastructure components and available options for migrating each workload. The better you understand what you’re working with, the easier project planning and execution becomes.
Migrating complex IT systems should be done incrementally. Inventorying your systems and in-use applications is the first step in developing your actionable cloud migration plan. Next, you should identify specific types of cloud migration to be performed with each item.
So, what are the cloud migration types? These are the most commonly used approaches:

• Rehosting
• Re-platforming
• Repurchasing
• Refactoring
• Retaining
• Retiring
  These strategies are commonly referred to as “the 6 R’s of cloud migration”. When deciding which “R” to use, prioritize the mission-critical services for optimization and refactoring and tackle the rest of your workloads with a simple lift-and-shift. It also can be useful to start from some lower risk non-critical workloads as a pilot test to help you refine the migration process as you get to the critical infrastructure components.

There are also three main types of cloud computing services:

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
• Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS)
• Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Data storage was once a trivial concern, about which a lot of companies were least bothered. But then came the data wave that woke up every such enterprise and made them realize the present and futuristic significance of data.

So, for companies that plan for data migration, it is imperative to take stock of data content, its current and future usability, the extent to which the data is conforming to storage and retention policies within the company’s data governance framework, and how safely can the company dispose of the data.

Fortunately, the availability of several data management tools simplifies the process of understanding data content. Such tools must be optimized without letting redundant data pile. That’s because, unless legally required, such data can become a liability, especially when a security breach takes place. So, companies that have been nurturing massive stocks of unnecessary data in their storage space must leverage the migration opportunity to clean up redundant data.