“The IT team is given the keys to a rocket ship when all it’s driven before was a car”
Migrating to Azure isn’t necessarily the toughest part of a successful cloud migration, explains our guest columnist
Many organisations succeed at deploying resources in or migrating to Microsoft Azure. But many of those same organisations fail to ensure Azure adoption. Why? From my many years of involvement with such projects, it could be anything from losing control of costs to an absence of informed organisation leadership.
The simplest way to adopt Azure is from scratch – as a startup deploying workloads for the first time, say – but it’s also common for an organisation to decide to enter the cloud with new (cloud-only or hybrid) workloads only.
The third option is a migration project. Here, the organisation takes existing workloads and moves them into the cloud using one of the six Rs of cloud migration: rehost, replatform, repurchase, refactor, retain and retire. The Cloud Academy has an excellent blog that covers these in).
