Why is your company considering a move to the Hyperscaler?
Is it due to challenges in your current infrastructure?
Is it due to your business-related requirements such as:
It’s probably a mix of all reasons, as is the case with most companies.
Does your company want to move its entire landscape to one hyperscaler, or do you want to take a “multicloud approach” and work with more than one hyperscaler? Companies typically do this to avoid being locked into a single provider, or because they have multiple locations.
It can also make sense to keep your own data center and outsource specific services and solutions to the hyperscaler. This is typically referred to as a “hybrid approach.”
Both multicloud and hybrid approaches need to be well thought through, as your landscapes may have many interdependencies. These dependencies need to be managed to avoid performance and quality degradation as well as high traffic between the different data centers.
Do you have a concrete schedule in mind due to boundary conditions or do you want to make your company fit for the future?
Very often, required software changes, growth or new market conditions force companies to react at an undesirable timing. Waiting too long can lead to higher costs.
If any of the conditions listed under “Why” apply to your current situation, we believe it is time to consider and plan for such a transition.
These migrations could be done in different ways:
Let us work together on the needed plan to consider all costs and benefits including the risk!
Some areas which need attention:
The execution must be done in several steps, including appropriate testing, before the real cutover begins.
Here is an overview of such a migration:
Steps 1 through 6 must be performed for each solution landscape.
The cutover for the production landscape requires a short business downtime and after the production cutover, a hyper-care team ensures smooth business continuity.
After the migration the de-commissioning of the old data center/data center part needs to happen.
After the successful hyperscaler migration, you are ready to address the topics of resilience (high availability, disaster recovery) and an optimization of your solution towards a native cloud solution.
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