In a managed service arrangement, the managed service provider retains responsibility for the functionality of the IT service and equipment, and the customer typically pays a monthly fee for receipt of the service. There are many different types of managed IT service offerings, but the idea behind all of them is to transfer the burden of maintaining IT from the customer to a service provider. In an effective managed services relationship, a customer benefits from predictable pricing and the ability to focus on core business concerns rather than IT management chores.
Cloud migration is the process of moving digital business operations into the cloud, which includes data, applications, and IT processes. Much like a move from a smaller office to a larger one, cloud migration requires quite a lot of preparation and advance work, but usually it ends up being worth the effort, resulting in cost savings and greater flexibility. While the term "cloud migration" describes the move from on-premises or legacy infrastructure to the cloud, the term can also apply to a migration from one cloud to another cloud.
The main benefits that compel organizations to migrate resources to the cloud include scalability, cost, performance and availability. However, successful cloud adoption and implementation requires rigorous end-to-end cloud migration planning. The migration process involves critical challenges like migaration of large database, ensuring data integrity and continued operation during and post migartion.
Successful cloud migration requires careful planning, building and assessing migration business cases, executing the migration process and ensuring optimization, security and efficiency of the migrated system. Apart from real-time monitoring, organizations should also assess the security of the data at rest to ensure that working in the new environment meets regulatory compliance laws such as HIPAA and GDPR.Another consideration to keep in mind is meeting ongoing performance and availability benchmarks to ensure the RPO and RTO objectives should they change.
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