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Introduction to cloud migration

What is cloud migration?

It’s not just about getting there, it’s also about what you do when you get there…

What are the benefits of cloud migration?

Cloud computing: The benefits

Cloud operating model

More efficient cloud operating models are powered by analytics, automation, and AI, with a saving of approximately 30%-50% in ongoing run operations.

Easy to consume

Cloud improves agility with standardized “appliance-like” service that can be provisioned in minutes in an aaS Opex model, saving approximately 50% in start-up time.

Workload placement and optimization

Workload placement is based on transparent business parameters, saving approximately 10%-30% on cloud spend.

Secure and compliant

Security and compliance are built in at the core to protect your most business-critical workloads and most sensitive data. Read more.

How does the cloud migration process work?

What are the types of cloud migration?

Re-host (lift & shift)

This is where you shift an application from an on-premises host to a cloud service (infrastructure or platform service). Begin with the simplest items, with the fewest dependencies, low business impact, and no regulatory constraints, while moving to the most complex items as maturity increases.

Re-platform

You choose to migrate to an operating system version based on CNaaS Platform Standards when the application can support it, reducing the total count of enterprise supported platforms to reduce operational expense.

Re-factor

The company updates components of an application to conform to enterprise standards, functional needs, and security needs. This includes .Net, Java, other upgrades.

What are the challenges of cloud migration?

Legacy applications (and what to do with them)

Not every app can move easily. Which do you keep, and which do you wreck and rebuild?

Application modernization

What are your options for rebuilding applications, so they perform optimally in cloud?

Cloud management

Once you have moved your applications, what’s the best way—and who are the best people— to manage them?

Complexity of migrating

Understand the complexity you’ll face when migrating and appropriately estimate the effort to get it done.

Key dependencies

Resolve key infrastructure and application dependencies, by prioritizing applications and identifying necessary remediations helping you reduce risk, time and cost.

Business support

Buy-in from stakeholders across the business is essential for migrating at scale.

Barriers to benefits

65%

of companies identified security and compliance risk

55%

identified complexity of business and organizational change

43%

identified legacy infrastructure and/or application sprawl

42%

identified lack of cloud skills within the organization

Accenture cloud migration services

Leveraging data from discovery and analysis, we assess your business needs, identify opportunities and recommend the optimal cloud migration strategy.

Accenture's cloud services

Cloud strategy and change management

Design your value-driven journey using our full suite of services, including industry insights, business model strategies and change management to accelerate ROI and performance.

Cloud migration

Bring industrialized cloud services together with patented tools and automation that speed migration and mitigate risks. Read more.

Cloud management & optimization

Manage cloud tools and service providers with automated compliance, monitoring, optimization and governance.

Cloud engineering and automation

Deliver custom cloud solutions using cloud native development and application modernization. 

Infrastructure services

Leverage hybrid cloud or reinvent your networks and workplace experience to accelerate cloud’s value. Read more.

Cloud security

Protect your IT estate with our cloud security services. Read more.

Data on cloud

Create industry and function-specific data and AI insights and intelligence for businesses through Cloud industry-specific data models. Read more.

Sustainability with cloud

Leverage our circular economies approach to enabling quick decisions for a sustainable cloud journey.

Cloud platforms

Move your ERP to cloud and leverage SaaS to drive performance and innovation. Read more.

Bring it on (and off)

Engaging shopping experiences, at home and in stores.

WSIB: Grounded in cloud

Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) future-proofs its critical insurance and claims services.

What we think

The race to cloud

Companies are reaching the inflection point to long sought value but must first overcome some persistent barriers.

Transform your data foundation on cloud

Data on cloud gains scale, agility, and the power to drive reinvention. Modernize your data foundation, so you can innovate and your business can soar.

Modernize to maximize: Unleash cloud’s potential

Maximizing long-term value in the cloud depends on modernizing applications, infrastructure and data architecture.

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