Cloud Migration Consulting Services Provider | Why Is Cloud Migration Important For Business Growth?

Cloud Experts Ltd.
6 min readMar 18, 2021

Cloud Experts Ltd is the leading Managed Cloud Services, Solutions and Consulting Provider helps businesses to modernize technology and automation.

Cloud Migration Consulting Services Provider

Migrating To The Cloud

Moving your business applications and data to the Cloud can be a significant strategic move that can give you a competitive advantage by reducing IT costs, enabling application scalability, and many other benefits. Thanks to cloud experts’ services, our cloud migration team is available 365 days a year to provide you with essential cloud migration services.

Why Is Cloud Migration Important For Business Growth?

By migrating to the Cloud, organizations can avoid the ongoing compatibility and performance issues that can arise when using the legacy physical infrastructure!

> Cost savings

By switching to the Cloud, you save operational costs.

> Improved integration and compatibility

This is very important and involves the integration of data from external sources.

> Increased scalability and flexibility

You can expand your existing resources to meet growing business needs.

> Data security

In the event of a security breach, the company’s liability increases

> Reliability

So reliable; you can access what you need from any device, anytime, anywhere.

> Improved network performance

Cloud-hosted applications perform better.

> Improved data storage capacity

Offers the ability to expand storage capacity within an existing hosting environment (or a new additional hosting environment)

> No issues in server maintenance

The possibilities are vast, and you will not have problems with the maintenance of your server.

Our Cloud Migration Services

It’s important to make sure your migration strategy is aligned with your business goals. Thus, read through our cloud migration services

> Infrastructure migration

Infrastructure migrations of all sizes in a wide variety of industries

> Platform migration

System migration moves a series of instructions or programs.

> Database migration

Virtually no downtime; migrate your databases to AWS.

> Application migration

Move a software application from one computing environment to another.

> Private Cloud Migration​

Execution of computer systems in a private cloud environment!

> Public Cloud Migration​

Data migration from an on-premises data center to the Public Cloud

Cloud Migration Capabilities

Cloud engineers must have a deep understanding of all the Cloud components to provide end-to-end services. The required capabilities can be listed as follows:

> Managing an Integrated Environment

Skills Used to integrate workloads into the Cloud; it’s in high demand these days.

>Programming skills

In-depth technical expertise knowledge of cloud computing and operating systems!

> Platform Expertise

Ensures that your data and software migrate smoothly!

> Maintaining Databases skills

Manage, patch, and update databases seamlessly.

> Managing a Network capability

It offers the possibility of creating a virtual private cloud or network.

> Automating Key Tasks

Many tasks are automated and not just one.

> Securing the Cloud Environment

Knows the modern distributed computing environment!

> Managing Change

Skills beyond what may be needed in the data center

Cloud Migration Strategies

Your exact roadmap for moving to the Cloud will depend on the size and complexity of your environment. These are necessary strategies:

>Rehosting

The rehosting strategy is also known as the lift and switch strategy.

> Repurchase

This’s drop and shop strategy, as it is popularly called

> Replatform

Known as Lift, Thinker and Shift is part of this strategy.

> Refactor

It is used to meet the needs of a business use case.

> Retire

Selected by organizations during the discovery phase

> Retain

Help businesses focus on pervasive services.

> Discovery

The focus should be on resource discovery.

> Needs

Once identified, the next step is to determine what to migrate.

Cloud Migration Process & Methodologies

It is important to continually refine the adopted cloud design process & Methodologies to reap the real benefits of the Cloud.

>Assessment

Helps companies discover, map, and evaluate cloud migration strategies.

> Audit

Perform an independent audit of cloud service controls

> Testing

It is done during and after the migration to the Cloud.

> Full documentation

Analyze and verify the size and configuration of resources.

> Cutover

Execution of the agreed conversion plan

> Automation

Ensures your migration to the Cloud goes smoothly and quickly.

> Deployment

It refers to enabling solutions that end users can access when needed.

Business Benefits of Cloud Computing Migration

To ensure you get the most out of the Cloud after your migration, you need to know that you are taking advantage of the most benefits of Cloud migration.

> Security

It significantly reduces the risk of a cyber incident that could affect your business.

> Scalability

This is one of the hallmarks of cloud migration.

> Cut Cost

The costs associated with Cloud migration are relatively low.

> Integration

Help businesses improve scalability and productivity.

> Access

You can access your data stored in the Cloud regardless of what happens to your physical machine.

> Flexibility

Your team doesn’t need to be in a specific location to update, deploy, or troubleshoot.

> Automatic backup

It allows you to get things back to work when performing disaster recovery.

> Faster Deployment Times

You can deploy your applications and services faster.

Case Studies — Proven Cloud Migration Successes

Our clients commend us for our personalized service, excellent results, on-time delivery and expert knowledge. Here are a few of them:

> Latitude Financial Services

The AWS migration gave us the fastest route to production, with the reliability and scalability to move initial loads and automatically switch deltas. This means that we now have faster, safer, and more reliable data availability in the Cloud.

> Shashidhar Sureban

Azure service from cloud experts helps our customers build better, more connected lives. As part of this journey, we are experiencing a profound shift in our database management approach, moving from expensive legacy commercial database solutions to more efficient and less costly options.

> Trimble

Trimble is a leading global provider of telematics solutions. They made a significant investment in local hardware in North America and Europe and operated a database. Rather than upgrade hardware and renew licenses, they decided to migrate the databases to Oracle.

> Expedia, Inc.

We are doing a few databases migrating process. The ease with which we can do this using Cloud Expert’s AWS Database Migration Service; made this process easier for us and allowed us to accelerate our migration efforts!

> TIBCO

The reliability, security, and rapid failover of Goole Cloud continue to help us scale live applications and provide customers with constant access to our service so they can build and run applications quickly and with high availability.

Technology We Use

The cloud migration technology tools we use allow us to automate, plan and track to facilitate large-scale server migrations.

> AWS Database Migration Service

You can quickly migrate to AWS with this tool.

> Azure Migrate

Tools (Azure Migrate) to assess, and migrate workloads to the Cloud

> Migrate for Compute Engine

Designed to improve migration agility and reduce risk

> IBM Lift

A tool for migrating local databases to IBM Cloud!

> OCI IaaS Migration Tools

Migrate those databases (IaaS) to the Cloud with almost zero downtime

> Centerprise data Integrator

Very powerful, intuitive to use, and responsive!

> Microsoft SQL

It is a tool to automate the migration of databases.

> Oracle Data Service Integrator

You can create an ODI repository in DBaaS using the build utility.

Why Should You Choose Cloud Experts For Your Cloud Journey?

Let’s achieve your goals together. With Cloud Experts services, you can put workload monitoring, provisioning, and mobility behind a single dashboard. Our cloud team will be happy to help you adopt the Cloud you need, no matter what stage you are in now. It’s never too late or too early to onboard a strategic partner.

Contact us today, and we will help your company’s cloud migration project.

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