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Architecting cloud managed services: Biggest cloud migration challenges organizations face today

Are you deciding to move your business to the cloud? One of the top challenges in 2022 is transforming your cloud migration blueprints to a new set of customer requirements and expectationsOrganizations that target to reap the benefits of the cloud have to realize that a technology change is enough for a successful cloud transformation. Companies already proceeding to the cloud may understand the complexities and challenges well.  

Gartner’s 2022 strategic trends research highlights that, by 2025, cloud-native platforms will serve as the foundation for more than 95% of new digital initiatives — up from less than 40% in 2021.

Successful cloud adoption requires a lot of attention from your business. If your business isn’t prepared to face cloud migration challenges, it could be challenging for you and your data. When planning your cloud migration, you need to consider both your business-critical challenges and how you will solve them.

Current methodologies to scaling cloud are often top-down-driven, resulting in increased go-to-market and operational challenges. Instead, I&O leaders should embrace a flexible approach by collaborating with employees and checking their cloud journey status.

Sun Technologies takes an employee-centric, rather than business-centric, approach to scaling the company’s use of cloud capabilities.

 

 

Here are few common challenges of cloud transformation that can obstruct your efforts.

1. Managing Multi-Cloud Environment is complex

Instead of harnessing a single cloud, businesses today are using many public and private clouds. Leveraging multiple clouds enhances data redundancy and availability and eliminates vendor lock-in. Governing a multi-cloud environment often obstructs their management. The unpredictability of the data migration from one cloud to another increases the potential for data loss.

A multi-cloud setup throws many other difficulties and challenges, which IT teams have to deal with. Opting right solutions such as automation, auto-scaling features, cloud cost management solutions helps manage a multi-cloud environment.

How Sun Technologies help you overcome the multi-cloud complexity?

  • We bring an intelligent approach to manage a multi-cloud environment
  • We map the entire network and find where the cloud fits in it
  • We work with vendors that respond faster and positively to the unexpected
  • We automate the test automation process with our home-grown scriptless tool called intelliSWAUT
  • It allows teams to meet stringent project timeline requirements and testing coverage with zero setup time

2. Increased Security Threats

The cloud offers numerous advantages to enterprises; however, it also comes with its own security issues and concerns. Cloud-based infrastructure is entirely different from an on-premise data center, and conventional security tools. The strategies are not always capable of securing it efficiently. Businesses of all sizes use the cloud extensively.

The cloud security management strategies are inadequate for securing the cloud-based infrastructure of many companies. This highlights the importance of reducing cloud security threats by removing present cloud vulnerabilities.

How Sun Technologies help you overcome security challenges?

  • Our security architecture aligns with the business goals and objectives
  • We build and implement a security architecture framework
  • We keep threat models up to date
  • We establish continuous monitoring capability
  • We apply DevSecOps to address all the cloud security challenges and ensure a seamless software development life cycle (SDLC)
  • Our DevSecOps principles bring security benefits along with software agility, availability, and high reliability across the life cycle
  • Globally compliant cloud architecture and intelligent security management 

3. Legacy applications limit seamless integration with modern cloud technologies

Organizations need to think about the other factors when considering the modernization of their IT systems, including tools, cost, technology, and business requirements. However, the most crucial one focuses on integrating any modern technology into its current IT stack. Thence integration technology is so essential to any IT modernization project.

Businesses increase their data exchange capabilities, improve customer relationships, and minimize the risk of errors by merging the integrations among your business systems. They must ensure that they can migrate to the cloud without hampering current business workflows and processes.

How Sun Technologies’ help you overcome these limitations?

  • We build the integration and customize it based on the requirements.
  • We use integration connectors as part of an integration platform 
  • Our approach enables organizations to configure an application using a connector in few hours
  • We ensure integration agility, capability, and adaptability that the other approaches cannot offer
  • We use JHipster to streamline and automate the software development process
  • We deliver best DevOps strategies to ensure success in the cloud
  • Our flexible deployment services can be tailored to your company’s needs. Also, we help your IT teams avoid managing integrations and enable them to concentrate on company growth.
  • We make sure you remain compliant with customer SLAs and industry standards that drive your business 

4. Businesses fail to integrate their cloud strategies with service strategies organized with business needs.

A cloud strategy defines how the cloud will rebuild your existing workflows, processes, and business operations in common. It should be based on your business goals for cloud adoption. It also determines how your enterprise will function once the transformation is accomplished. Mainly, it gives detailed information on everything that will be transformed by the successful adoption of the cloud. 

How Sun Technologies help you develop cloud strategies?

  • Our experts develop a decision framework to analyze use-case scenarios for cloud adoption completely
  • Our IT leaders understand the type of application and its technical features, requirements, and limitations. The associated data is integrated with the relevant application for a successful cloud strategy.

5. Optimize your TCO to reduce cloud costs

Cloud cost optimization continues to be a serious and significant concern no matter where you are in your cloud transformation journey. As businesses move huge workloads to the cloud, it’s effortless to neglect the associated costs

. Adopting cloud services provides powerful agility benefits, but an optimal plan for managing cloud costs is vital. Hence, it is necessary to optimize cost to improve return on investment (ROI) and minimize TCO.pBusinesses and Product owners are now focusing on optimizing their cloud investments to leverage cloud services, maximize ROI, and put their business in the best structure.

Business leaders proactively address the following cloud migration challenges on a top priority.

Cloud Expertise: Developing and retaining cloud experience needs continuous effort in the competitive world

Collaboration: Finding and resolving “what goes where” confusion is critical to ensure a successful cloud strategy

Knowledge Gaps: Understanding and analyzing every cloud employee and assigning tasks is critical in reducing cloud migration risks.

Cost Optimization: Cross-functional collaboration is vital in optimizing cloud costs

Conclusion

Areas I&O leaders must focus on to optimize cloud infrastructure.

  • To make informed decisions about where to migrate workloads to the cloud, work with the CIO to determine and prioritize business capabilities that are necessary for business transformation, and migrate those capabilities to the cloud to achieve maximum benefits with reduced efforts and migration costs.
  • Make the finance team generate cost comparisons by aligning potential savings with the companies’ business objectives.
  • Make way for collaboration for required initiatives that minimize infrastructure complexity and maximize agility while fulfilling compliance needs.

It takes the right proposition of intelligence and technology to drive a successful digital transformation. As the shift to the cloud accelerates, customers are looking for expert assistance with IT transformation. They need end-to-end services for applications that yield agility. They realized the potential of the DevOps approach to support continuous integration and delivery for expected business results.

In order to support continuous integration and delivery and to overcome challenges, companies require the right technology and strategy. An effective cloud process can improve the overall performance. However, businesses must first select the best approach and maintain up-to-date with the most recent technology and innovations.

Train your team for all the essential digital and technical skills. If you do not find the talent internally, look out for a trustable business partner who can assist you in your transformation process. Select the right technologies and tools that are in a row with your goal and growth strategy.

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Vaidyanathan Ganesa Sankaran

Vaidyanathan Ganesa Sankaran

Vaidy is an experienced lead Solutions Architect heading sales and project delivery for Cloud (AWS, Azure), DevOps and legacy Modernization projects with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. He is a strong engineering professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Computer Software Engineering from BITS Pilani. He has the capability to manage bigger teams and generate revenue through new Sales and Account Mining.

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