Cloud technology has become an essential tool for addressing top business priorities, helping organizations to move faster, become more resilient and adaptable to change, and enhance security.

While organizations recognize the value and power of the cloud, getting started migrating to the cloud and modernizing resources can feel challenging.

There’s no need to migrate or modernize everything at once. In fact, a thoughtful phased approach is often best. Take your time. For instance, you can start small. Start with your own IT or development teams, who are more tolerant of a minimum viable product. After you’ve achieved success, you can roll those changes out to the larger organization.

Top 10 cloud migration considerations

1. Cloud migration is an opportunity to reduce technical debt; sometimes it may seem cheaper to lift-and-shift an application but there may be ramifications long-term.
2. Developing a business case for cloud migration and then revisiting it later on is vital to ongoing success.
3. Organizational change management is a critical element of your cloud migration strategy.
4. Approval processes must fit the pace of cloud innovation; traditional project management approval cycles may slow the pace of your migration.
5. Don’t forget about data migration. After all, you can’t move apps without moving data.
6. Highly-complex apps may require an initial lift and shift; a portfolio exercise can help determine when this is the case.
7. Cloud-smart has replaced cloud-first. Not everything belongs in the public cloud, at least initially.
8. Workload portability requires a balance of cloud native and cloud agnostic.
9. Incremental wins sustain stakeholder commitment. Don’t be afraid to take it slow.
10. Cloud cost optimization toolsets can help track costs and lead to better rightsizing of solutions.

Get started with your migration by making a solid business case. Migration starts with a business case, which includes a strategy and financial analysis. That’s where the Azure Migrate business tool really helps.

Enable critical outcomes for business leaders:

• Optimize tech investments: Organizations are realizing a 427% return on investment while lowering the impacts of their technical debt and doing more with less.

• Increase performance and business resiliency: With more global regions you can reduce latency, guarantee 99.99% SLA against failures and gain higher availability, disaster recovery and backup compared to on-premise.

• Secure and protect everything: Increase your security posture and compliance management with over 325 regulatory standards out of the box. Using the right tools reduces time spent on security and compliance by 30%.

• Enable agility and innovation: Increase productivity, reduce time to market, and compete at scale. Today 9.5% of an organization’s revenue is at risk due to bad customer and user experiences

Businesses that embrace data and analytics realize more benefits

54% saw increased in revenue performance.

44% saw faster time to market.

62% saw improvement in customer satisfaction.

54% saw increased profit results.

Invest in AI transformation today

Prepare your business for the AI era by migrating your data estate to Azure—a crucial first step. This lays the groundwork for enhanced AI capabilities, empowering you to develop AI-driven applications in the cloud and boost developer and sales productivity. Utilizing Microsoft's integrated platform brings together identity, applications, management, security, and enterprise data, streamlining AI integration throughout your operations.

Microsoft is dedicated to responsible AI implementation, embedding security and trust into every solution from inception. Purpose-built AI infrastructure ensures scalability, reliability, and top performance. You retain full control over your data; Microsoft never uses it without your consent.

Transitioning to the cloud is a thoughtful process that brings many benefits. By starting with a clear plan and tools like Azure Migrate, businesses can make smarter technology investments, improve performance and security, and stay agile and innovative.

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