Cloud Migration

Business is continually evolving and empowering the customers to reach out to more and more of information. Going digital for any company has opened the doors of unlimited power in the hands of business to gain a competitive edge and prove their worth in their field of operations. 

Wanaport extends the services of migration in cloud computing to help its clients in the highly competitive world. Benefits of cloud data migration are as follows:

• Flexibility- this is the first and foremost benefit of cloud computing as it helps the companies with fluctuating bandwidth demand to regularize its services as per the requirement. If the need increases it is easy to increase the for cloud capacity and vice versa.
• Disaster recovery- most of the companies cannot invest inn a very strong and robust disaster recovery due to lack of capital and resources to keep the vital work on track. A cloud based back up and recovery is a fool-proof disaster recovery system. It saves time and money while avoiding huge investments. Importantly Wanaport provides utmost safety and security of data.
•  Security- security hazards like hacking, data theft, identity theft and so on all this can cause huge data set back to the companies. Cloud computing provides security in such cases. 
• Mobility- lack of mobility is one of the reasons of major set back for any of the companies. Cloud computing and migration helps that data is not restricted to any sole device to get the work accomplished.
• Increased collaboration- operations and responsibilities become difficult to be accomplished and thus collaborated effort from the team can come for the rescue. When the entire team access, edit and share documents in an aligned way it becomes easier to achieve the organizational goals.    

Different Cloud migration types- 

Cloud migration process is a complex task, and it needs to be customized as per technical, functional, and operational needs of the clients. For any cloud migration requirement it is required to follow the below mentioned three strategies:

1. Homogeneous “lift and shift” migration- here an application is lifted and shifted to another environment. Wanaport claims this to be a very cost-effective migration process with minimal disruption and quick return on investment. Replatforming is also a used strategy but with a slight difference from lift and shift method, that involves further adjustments to improve the environment in a way. It is often referred as “lift-tinker- and –shift”. It empowers the organizations to attain their goals beyond rehosting with expanding the project.
2. Technical migration- technical migration as offered by Wanaport maintains the existing applications but then upgrades the OS and DB to meet the transformational goals. Technical migration helps in scalability and automation, thereby increasing the performance and efficiency.
3. Application migration- here an application layer is transformed along with OS and DB. Here new system implementation, system conversion, or replaced with new, off the shelf applications is used as a part of strategy of migration.