Challenges and benefits of cloud migration
When it comes to migrating to the cloud, Tomasz Wartalski, chief innovation officer at Conotoxia, offers some ideas on the advantages and how to overcome potential issues.
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The reasoning behind the migration of a company’s IT resources to the cloud is based on three pillars. Of these, one is agility. Companies that choose to take this step instead of building new systems and operations can utilize everything that cloud technologies already offer.
Having a global footprint is another fundamental factor that brings a business much more quickly to any part of the world with the cloud. To this list, we should also add automatic scalability, through which there is no longer a need to manage resources manually.
Migrating a company to the cloud is usually accompanied by the intention to exploit its competitive advantages. When opting for such a solution, the business first wants a high level of scalability that provides resilience to increased user traffic at unexpected times.
Secondly, for a business with a global scope of operations or such aspirations, the availability of services in different regions of the world becomes vital.
Thirdly and finally, business managers are focusing on automation when it comes to setting up IT infrastructure. The repeatability of processes makes things easier, and maintaining in-house infrastructure is no longer an issue. Tech-savvy companies then concentrate on designing and implementing new solutions. With the cloud, there is also more streamlined development of big data — provided, of course, that the company has such a department and expands its business based on the processing and analysis of data sets.
The coordination of internal work is also essential. For instance, thanks to the cloud, in the era of pandemic restrictions, it was possible to switch to remote working without major risks to transaction security. Offering employees the comfort of working from anywhere in the world is an opportunity to have a variety of highly focused specialists in their respective fields.
The real challenge in migrating to the cloud is the training of teams to build a consistent awareness of the capabilities of the new environment.
