What is the best way to set up your

infrastructure on the cloud

Over the years, we have seen an abnormal rise in cloud computing popularity. Already
over 90% of companies are using some kinds of cloud service. The experts predict that
enterprises will carry out around 83% of their tasks via the cloud.

The recent trend may deceive you into taking data migration tasks lightly. But the fact is that
migrating to the cloud is not that easy. The recent survey found that over 70% of companies will
take at least one year to shift to the cloud entirely. These companies are taking a conservative
approach due to the recent incidents of cloud migration failures.
How to maximize the chances of successful cloud migration?
Although setting up infrastructure on the cloud is quite a challenge, you can achieve success by performing
the tasks correctly. By following these steps, you can successfully migrate to cloud infrastructure.

Four things contribute to a sound cloud infrastructure:

 Standardization
 Automation
 API support
 Self-Service-Enabled

If you get these things right, you can reap immense benefits with your decision to migrate to the cloud
infrastructure.
Here are some of the characteristics of a reliable road-map:

 Customized end-to-end cloud vision

 Documentation of architectures
 Operation plan after migrating to the cloud

You must collaborate with experienced business system analysts to make sure that the new system
meets both technology and business requirements. Having a solid blueprint means an optimization of
digital transformation and a massive reduction of complexities and possibilities of hazards.
Carefully monitor implementation and migration activities
Never try to migrate everything at once, as it will lead to a disaster. In the migration phase, you need to
carefully balance your current infrastructure, network, computation, device, storage, operations, and your
cloud migration strategies.

Make sure that you have skilled cloud computing professionals in your organization to monitor the migration
tasks to avoid data loss and security loopholes.

Keep in mind that the change in the system also demands adjustments in management style. Have detailed
change management strategies in place to guide your workforce to the new ways of performing operations.
You can bring some experts to educate your stakeholders to make them familiar with the new system.
 Do not ignore post cloud service management
Understand your legacy environment along with the complexities of managing private, public, and hybrid
cloud infrastructures.

Another thing that you must decide to go with either fully-managed or semi-managed cloud services. The
fully-managed cloud infrastructure will take away the hassles of planning for scalability, setting firewall
rules, storage issues, security setup, and other things related to operating cloud infrastructure. It will allow
you to focus on your business entirely.
You also have an option to go with semi-managed service. Here, the service provider will look after fundamental
configuration issues, hardware failure, network issues, basic firewall setup, and so on. Discuss with your service
providers to get all the knowledge that you need for successful migration and operation of your cloud
infrastructure.

Over to You
The migration to cloud infrastructure demands lots of planning, hard work, and resources. You must do all
your homework before moving to the cloud infrastructure to avoid failures. The key is to focus on
fundamentals, i.e., security, stability, and scalability, to maximize the chances of success.