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Developing a cloud
migration strategy
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It's important to create an end-to-end
project plan for migration that consists of
estimated efforts and timelines required to
complete the cloud adoption journey.
The migration process can be divided
into three steps—Assess, Migrate, and
Optimize—to solve the most pressing
migration challenges and deliver the
reliability, performance, and security that
business stakeholders expect with limited
impact on the business.
Step 1: Assess
Begin the Microsoft Azure migration
journey by discovering and assessing
existing apps and infrastructure. It is among
the most critical tasks, as all other migration
efforts—such as defining a migration
portfolio, identifying migration scenarios,
and executing migration from on-premises
to the cloud—rely on the results of this
assessment.
Assess the existing infrastructure
To accurately assess existing infrastructure,
IT teams need to start by systematically
reviewing the existing environment to
determine what they have, where it is, what
it does, and whether it's a good candidate
for moving to the cloud.
To do this work, teams can leverage a
comprehensive set of assessment tools and
resources from Microsoft. These materials
help identify which workloads are ready to
migrate and what the priority workloads
are. For different types of workloads, see
the assessment tools described on the
following page.
