Cloud Migration Services.

Common reasons to migrate to cloud include outgrowing your existing on-premises hardware, the need to consolidate a previously haphazard approach, being more cost-effective, being easier to scale and maintain, and offer greater flexibility.

Here are some common cloud migration challenges we can help you with:

• Migration Planning: Defining the right migration approach, timeline and priorities while minimising business disruption.
• Application Dependency Mapping: Understanding how applications, servers and workloads interact to avoid unexpected issues during migration.
• Workload Suitability: Identifying which workloads should move to the cloud and which are better suited to remain on-premises or in a hybrid environment.
• Business Case Development: Building a clear financial and operational justification for migration and securing stakeholder buy-in.
• Downtime and Business Continuity: Minimising disruption to users and ensuring critical services remain available throughout the migration.
• Governance and Operating Models: Establishing the right policies, controls and management processes before moving to the cloud.
• Resource Optimisation: Right-sizing cloud resources to avoid overprovisioning and unnecessary costs after migration.
• Skills and Change Management: Preparing teams for new ways of working and ensuring they can effectively manage cloud environments.

It’s impossible to determine in advance which problems exactly will befall your cloud migration project, but with a well-defined cloud migration strategy and ANS’ Cloud Navigator Assessment, you can navigate any challenges that arise with confidence.

Deciding whether to take a ‘Big Bang’ approach and migrate everything at once, or adopt a phased migration over time, depends on factors such as the volume of data, application dependencies, business criticality and organisational readiness. Through our Cloud Navigator assessment, ANS evaluates your current environment, applications and workloads to recommend the most appropriate migration approach for your business. Whether you’re moving to Azure, AWS, a private cloud or a hybrid environment, Cloud Navigator provides the insights and strategy needed to plan your migration with confidence.

There are five key potential problems businesses should be aware of are:

Failing to build a business case. It’s crucial to recognize that moving to the cloud involves strategic business decisions and organizational change. Making decisions solely based on technical aspects can lead to financial challenges and other issues.

Governance is key. Crucial for preventing cloud misuse and ensuring success from the outset.

Trying to do it all at once. If you expect to do it all at once using a copy and paste approach, it doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as one size fits all in cloud migration; not every application fits the cloud and it may need redeveloping to get to that point.

Keeping track of your budget and your performance. This is really, really important, because if you’ve got limitless technology that’s available to a developer, there’s a risk they will just go off and do their own thing. With that in mind, make sure you understand where the money’s being spent month by month – we at ANS use different technologies like monitoring tools like Cloud Health and LogicMonitor within our services to keep track of that.

People and the culture. Technical teams are often deeply invested in specific technologies, which can be a significant risk. It’s essential to ensure that your staff understands the migration process—before, during, and after—and why these changes are necessary. Engage your technical staff throughout the journey, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning. This approach not only eases the transition but also enhances their buy-in and support, ensuring a smoother and more successful migration.