Five best practices to drive an effective cloud migration – ETCIO

By Samit Banerjee

For Enterprises of today and tomorrow, the road to success has been carved with an inevitable pitstop and that is at the Cloud. Keeping up this pace of progress has become elemental to earn a competitive edge in the COVID era and the biggest risk an enterprise could take would be to slow down its digital journey to a crawl. However, while making this transition, many service providers fail to critically map and align cloud journeys to their business strategies, and current priorities, leading to a sore failure of cloud migration. Moreover, if not adopted in the right manner, compliance risks could complicate issues further.

So, what are the best practices and potential risks while adopting the cloud at scale? Making the Cloud a bright success: The best practices

Lightning strikes: The risks of ad-hoc cloud use

While cloud success at scale has positively transformed and redefined ways of working globally, cloud computing collates all the resources needed to develop, test, and launch new applications and services which are only a few clicks away. For large enterprises, especially those in highly regulated industries, this is precisely what introduces the biggest risks. To maintain a check on cloud consumption and eliminate unwanted chaos, proper operational controls and processes can ring-fence enterprises from security and compliance issues, here are some risks of ad-hoc cloud use:

The author is Division President, Amdocs Cloud Operations Services.Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely of the author and ETCIO.com does not necessarily subscribe to it. ETCIO.com shall not be responsible for any damage caused to any person/organization directly or indirectly.

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Five best practices to drive an effective cloud migration - ETCIO