Cloud Migration - Partner Selection

Companies who are struggling with their cloud migration activities post pandemic are looking to partner with a company who can deliver a solution with minimal challenges, meet security and regulation requirements, and provide guidance for future enhancements. When the right partner is found, the benefits top companies across North American are realizing from these partnerships are impressive.

According to Gartner’s “IT Roadmap for Cloud Migration”, the key capabilities companies should be looking for in potential partners are:

• Develop cloud competencies across your enterprise  
• Assess different service providers based on your needs (Microsoft, AWS, Google, etc.)
• Build protections against cloud-specific risks
• Identify viable investments in networking, security and identity, architectures, and tools

It is very important the partner can also develop an action plan:

• Build an understanding around different use cases for cloud adoption
• Define a formal cloud strategy aligned to IT strategic goals
• Determine action steps to achieve goals, keeping in mind cloud financial management
• Craft decision principles for migration of information by application and team readiness, business priorities, application modernization strategy, and vendor capabilities
• Understand data and metrics for usage and capabilities  

Start by building a list of the competencies which are most important to your company and evaluate the potential partners based on your requirements. Once the right partner is selected, what are the top benefits CIOs are realizing from their cloud migration?

According to Forrester’s “State of Public Cloud Migration” report “80% of CIO’s experienced increased speed of application development and delivery due to a recent cloud migration, and 78% experienced consistent or improved application/workload performance.” Additional benefits they reported include:

Choosing the right strategic partner is key to overcoming the challenges faced in the mid to late phases of a cloud migration. ISM is chosen by businesses across Canada and internationally to help with their cloud migration activities. With over 320 Azure accreditations, 20 years' experience and a dedicated team across Canada, we’ve successfully helped enterprise organizations across many industries including Government, Finance, Agriculture Services and Manufacturing migrate to the cloud successfully.  

Sources:

Forrrester State Of Public Cloud Migration  |  Google Cloud

The IT Roadmap for Cloud Migration | Gartner