The cloud brings agility, scalable capacity and managed services. But a successful migration is prepared: it starts with organizational questions before being a technology question.
1. What is the main objective?
Reduce costs, gain availability, speed up deployments, enable remote work: each objective leads to a different architecture and service model.
2. Which data can leave the organization?
Some data is subject to confidentiality, location or compliance requirements. Classifying data by sensitivity lets you decide what goes to a public or private cloud and what stays on-site.
3. Are your applications ready?
Some applications move as they are, others need rework. An inventory of dependencies avoids discovering along the way that a critical component is not compatible.
4. What will the real cost be over time?
The cloud is billed by usage. Without monitoring, a forgotten or oversized resource quickly weighs on the budget. Plan governance rules, consumption alerts and a regular review.
5. Who will operate the platform?
Security, backups, monitoring, support: responsibility is shared with the provider, not removed. Define who does what, and train your teams or entrust operations to a managed-services partner.
PIRIDRA supports architecture thinking, migration and operation, with teams certified on the main platforms.