Migrating To Cloud Services: the very concept of cloud migration is comprehensive and has no clear boundaries. Many companies, attracted by the benefits of the cloud, proceed with extreme caution or make mistakes due to their inability to limit the phenomenon, to channel cloud migration into a well-designed path, or, even more commonly, due to the need for dedicated skills.
As anticipated, cloud migration has several meanings. Here are some:
The most common examples are the migration to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, but the whole SaaS universe is included. Depending on the company’s business, companies may decide to take advantage of cloud services for:
As mentioned, most companies are investing in the first hypothesis of migration to the cloud, namely that of services, emphasizing email, productivity tools, collaboration, and file and document repositories.
The reasons that drive companies towards the adoption of cloud services are different. The service provider, usually an international vendor with a world-class cloud infrastructure and a highly talented developer team, ensures the resiliency of the hardware and software. By combining infrastructure and application, the cloud service wins over the traditional model in terms of resilience (uptime) and scalability, in addition to the fact that neither the hardware nor the services (software) undergo the phenomenon of obsolescence and are constantly updated. Finally, as anticipated, the whole cloud world has the benefit of not requiring courageous investments (CapEx).
In 2023, enterprises were no longer wondering whether to move to cloud services but how to do it.
In the last decade, the concept that SaaS systems reduce the complexity of implementation to the limit of allowing a do-it-yourself adoption has passed. If all this is true in very narrow departmental areas, for example, when introducing a room booking system that only existed the day before, a core phenomenon such as email migration to the cloud does not always meet the necessary specialized skills in the company. Despite email (think Gmail) being the textbook example of a SaaS service, all of this.
The absence of dedicated skills, even within IT divisions, leads to the most common mistakes: thinking that a cloud service can be configured in zero time, that it does not need specialist skills, and, far from secondary, that it must be managed over time, i.e., that it “works” regardless of everything. In reality, although the cloud provider guarantees product updates, ensuring that it is exploited to the fullest, always aligned with company policies, and guarantees security and performance is an ongoing task.
To successfully plan and execute a cloud migration, relying on an experienced Managed Service Provider is essential. Its role is different from yesterday’s (where the core business was the maintenance of the customer’s physical infrastructure), but it is certainly no less central. As an example, consider migrating to Microsoft 365, which assumes you need to:
Although based on SaaS cloud services, the above businesses can only be managed with proper skills. Their impact on business operations is too great to afford the risks.
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