11 Cloud Deployment IssuesThat You’ll Need to Avoid

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Thinking It Is Simple

Thinking You Don’t Need Help

Believing that MigrationIs only an IT change

Not Involving Users inCloud Service Decision

Not Investigating the Infrastructure Enough

Not Planning forCloud Hardware Issues

Putting All Eggsin One Basket

Budget Is Too Small

Not Having aDisaster Recovery Plan

Failure to Monitor

Not Having aLong-Term Strategy

Migrating is not a simple DIY task, as many services would have you believe. You’re migrating a data system, not a piece of software, and data systems are complex. There should be testing all along the way when it comes to cloud deployment, and fixes can then be put in place as you go. Trying to do it in one fell swoop rather than in stages.

No matter how much expertise your IT department may possess, if cloud migration is a new exercise, experienced

help should be enlisted. Migrating will cost, and getting that expert help should be built into the budget for the activity.

Unfortunately, cloud providers often over-simplify the process to clients, and that “lulls” clients into false confidence.

IT migration focus may tend to ignore the total business migration. Prior to the move, the business must determine the services it does and does not need, and a plan has to be developed that goes beyond just the automation process.

If staff members do not like the cloud service that has been adopted, they will not use it. In fact, they will continue to use

the web-based solutions that were in place before themigration, and this will destroy continuity within the

organization and undermine the effort for full collaboration.

Cloud providers differ. Important question must be asked – how is traffic segmented? How is segmentation managed? What are the guarantees on speed? What is the level of security? How is access controlled? (and many others).You have to have reliability, security, and seamless user experiences.

The cloud is, at its core, an architecture of data centers with hardware. What happens when there is a failure in cloud deployment? You must plan in advance for failure, even

perhaps by using more than one cloud provider.

Do not believe that the cloud provider you initially choose is the one you will remain with. In fact, many companies change cloud providers more than once. Have other options in your back pocket – options that you have already explored and that will meet your needs.

Companies do tend to underestimate the costs of cloudmigration, especially when data has to be modified and experts

must be called in to help. While it may be easy and low budget to put a lot of data in a public cloud environment, it may not be

cost-effective or the best solution in the long run. Manycompanies, in fact, are finding that it is much better to

implement a private cloud strategy.

Data centers of cloud providers can crash. What is the recovery plan or redundancy features of your provider? Cloud providers, usually have backup data stored in another location. You should have your own as well. Having back-up on your own system is certainly part of the solution; however, having another off-site location, one that is not connected to your cloud provider is a good idea. A breach of your cloud provider may well hit all of its systems, including its backups.

Migrating to the cloud and then believing that the provider will tend to issues is naïve. Continual and frequent testing in cloud

deployment, as well as communicating with your provider. Performance must be tested and, if services are awry in any

small way, they must be fixed.

Things change; businesses evolve. If a current cloud provider is not able to meet the demands of significant growth, then a company will have to migrate again. Better to plan in advance by exploring and choosing a provider that can allow seamless scaling.

Source : Tech.co

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