Revisit Your Business Drivers for Cloud Migration

Migrating to the cloud should ultimately reduce your total cost of IT assets and their management. Before you start a cloud-migration project, however, you should evaluate your underlying motivations and business drivers for the cloud migration. Such factors may include the following:

• Reduction or elimination of an on-premise data center

• Reduce administrative and operations data-center costs

• Improved disaster recovery and business continuity

• Improved application scalability and robustness

• Cost savings through managed services (such as a database as a service, DBaaS)

• Improved security

Depending on your application environment, your cloud migration may be complex and expensive. As such, you should perform a return-on-investment (ROI) analysis for your business drivers to fully justify your migration.