24 July 2024 - How to prepare and prioritize workloads for cloud migration (ITpro.com)
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How to prepare and prioritize workloads for cloud migration
Business strategies for migrating workloads to the cloud must interface with IT and business objectives, whether SMB or enterprise – not least to minimize the chance of cost blowout
By Fleur Doidge
Published July 24, 2024In How to
Failing to plan and prepare your workloads for a cloud migration is in effect planning to fail – but the devil is in the detail no less than in other potentially complex IT transformations.
Jon Collins, senior industry analyst and vice president of engagement at research firm GigaOm, warns that moving workloads to the cloud without considering suitability has gotten organizations "stuck". In these situations, contracted cloud resources can be wasted.
"Cloud's great for quick-starts, certain answers, quickly spinning up applications, testing, and learning,” Collins says. “But you can't be hazy about it, then need 65 meetings to work things out or nothing gets built."
To begin with, businesses must analyze internal operations models. Remember: the base resource cost will likely be a similar order of magnitude to on prem. Governance is critical, especially for jumps into AI, so it’s imperative to scope out what you want to move and its cost today, then cloud, rather than pursuing a cloud "at all costs" approach.
