Understanding Today’s Cloud Migration Capabilities

When to Consider a Second Migration

The potential of cloud technologies led many companies to enthusiastically adopt new applications, services, and data collection methods. Generally, these cloud subscribers see tangible benefits and operational improvements when they put the cloud to work inside their organizations. That said, there’s still more to do before you can realize the cloud’s full potential. Benefiting from the cloud is an ongoing process. It requires continuous improvement. Migrating to the cloud isn’t always a one-time project. A majority of the organizations undertaking a first migration do a second migration later. According to one study, 83 percent of companies have already completed a secondary cloud migration. Here are the primary reasons these companies cited for switching cloud providers, as reported by CompTIA:

In other words, better features, more control, and other operational reasons are why businesses leave Better Features their original cloud providers.

The Rise of Cloud Confusion

As cloud use proliferates without strategic planning organizations, overall cloud spend and cloud confusion grows. Cloud confusion occurs when companies lack real visibility into their own cloud usage. Cloud confusion presents very distinct symptoms as it spreads from individuals and departments outward to the entire organization. Consider these common warning signs:

• No centralized plan - With more cloud migrations and deployments comes more confusion as each department independently decides to implement cloud solutions.
• Security challenges - Each system may have different security, creating a patchwork of independent security strategies
• High infrastructure usage - If you’re using multiple servers for the same work that could be done with one server, then your infrastructure spend greatly increases.
• Costly - Higher costs involved with securing and managing various systems can strain your budget and hamper your organization’s efforts at restricting spending on IT resources.
• Higher administrative burden - Keeping track of several distinct systems becomes a challenge for each department.
• Oversight is more difficult - It’s more challenging to enforce departmental budgets and important corporate strategies.

Reduce Complexity in Cloud Deployment

Also known as storage convergence, storage area consolidation (SAN) can help your company generate savings and strategically reduce complexity in cloud deployments. Complex and nuanced cloud deployments make it more challenging for organizations to oversee and maintain their cloud use. By consolidating your cloud usage, you can empower your company to strategically manage these deployments.

• Operational advantages - Less data center power consumption, more rack space, less cabling
  
  
•  Potential savings - Lower costs, fewer unused or forgotten subscriptions, less resource usage, and more efficient allocation of team members