
Earlier this year, Gartner published a detailed research report on migration to the cloud. By the end of 2020, over 36% of all enterprises globally are likely to operate over half their transactional systems over the cloud. The report also suggested that – over the next three years, 44.6 percent of smaller organizations along with 37.7 percent of midsize and 40.4 percent of larger organizations plan to migrate to the cloud.
According to a study by Deloitte, the top three reasons to move to the cloud include security, data modernization and cost. From a sectoral perspective, automotive, insurance and financial services, hospitality, manufacturing and healthcare are some of the key industries that are expected to migrate to the cloud.
While the current pandemic has certainly accelerated the migration from on-premise systems to cloud computing, a rapid shift has been underway for a few years now.
Cutting edge Data Virtualization Services at your Finger Tips
Read More
Broadly speaking, there are five key reasons why the shift to the cloud is imminent:
Over the last few years, Indium has helped a range of enterprises migrate to the cloud with a robust, methodical process. In this blog, we share a collection of best practices we’ve learned from these engagements.
At Indium, thanks to our expertise in all cloud environments including Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Digital Ocean, we’re able to suggest the right cloud architecture to suit each specific business case. Clients often look for is – Zero Downtime Migration. At Indium, we’re specialists in making this happen.
Plan, Prepare and Design the right cloud solution
Indium worked with one of South East Asia’s leading e-payment companies on a cloud migration project. The primary goal of the client was to move data to the cloud and ensure it was easy to do on-demand and real-time analytics. Indium designed a highly scalable data warehouse ecosystem, to ensure all data storage and processing needs of the clients are met.
We also designed the cloud architecture to include the following:
While this is a specific example, the point here is that cloud infrastructure was used to power insights from big data. The migration to cloud was planned keeping this requirement in mind. Structured planning and cloud migration strategy is a crucial first step.
Understand your approach to scaling and modernization. Choose your pace and transition period carefully
Cloud-based environments are designed to allow enterprises to scale and modernize with flexibility. In addition to cost-savings and change in financials (from CAPEX to OPEX), it is crucial to schedule the pace and migration carefully. Cloud testing must be done in sync with the migration process. At Indium, we’ve designed approaches for various needs and have done Scheduled scaling, Autoscaling, Containerization and even Predictive scaling.
Additionally, it is an important strategic decision to decide among Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud options. Indium has helped numerous clients with choosing the right kind of cloud solution, with a key focus on ensuring the enterprise has complete control over their cloud infrastructure.
Robust review process, post-migration
Cloud testing is a crucial part of any migration strategy. Irrespective of whether you’re migrating data or applications, an elaborate test framework is critical. In addition to functional testing, it is absolutely essential to run tests around Multi-tenancy, Autoscaling, Elasticity, Security, Compliance, High Availability and Reliability.
On the functionality side, the review process will differ based on whether it is a migration of an application or data to the cloud. If it is a migration of data management to the cloud, it is critical to take care of controls related to data migration and data security. Additionally, it is important to review processes around data transformation, appropriate Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) processes, the configuration of Data Visualization reports and dashboards for effective BI, etc.
If it is an application, it is critical to run a robust functionality, performance, security testing process on the cloud.
At Indium we understand the key challenges that customers face as they go through this journey of migration.
Leverge your Biggest Asset Data
Inquire Now
To alleviate some of the roadblocks we can specifically help in the following areas:
If you’d like to speak to one of our technology leaders who specialize in cloud migration, reach out to us here: https://www.indiumsoftware.com/inquire-now/
By Indium
By Indium
By Uma Raj
By Uma Raj
By Abishek Balakumar