Creating a Cloud Readiness Assessment

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

It’s a lot easier to move your infrastructure into the cloud than have to migrate everything back into a private data center. The idea is to make sure you deploy the right workloads and have the correct deployment methodology throughout the entire process. When cloud computing started getting popular, organizations began pushing more of their environments into a public or hybrid cloud model.

Although this was absolutely a great move by many of these businesses, some began to feel the pains of putting the wrong application or database into a public cloud. User, data, and workload proximity are critical, as is deploying the right workload against the proper type of cloud model…

Before you migrate a workload into a colocation or public cloud provider space, there are some key infrastructure aspects to consider. One of the best ways to prep your entire organization for a potential cloud move is to utilize a cloud readiness assessment. Working with a cloud-ready partner can really help this process along. Here’s the challenge: every business and every data center is unique. However, the methodology around a readiness assessment can be standardized to some extent…

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