
Expand from Network Security to Cloud Security
Learn how to expand from on-prem network security to cloud security with these best practices and resources.
Updated: January 28, 2023. Editor's Note: Daven's Q&A still rings true, but we've updated some outdated statistics and included additional resources at the end for those interested in learning more about cloud migrations.
In the IT world where things seem to change every day, the cloud should be old news by now. After all, it was way back in 1996 when a group of technology executives at Compaq Computer started referring to the future of the internet as cloud computing.
More than two decades later the cloud is still a disrupter, and the market for it shows no sign of slowing down. According to Statista, a leading provider of market and consumer data, the public cloud services market is expected to reach around $525.6 billion in 2023 with market volume growing to an expected $881.8 billion by 2027.
Much of that growth will be derived from cloud migrations. This blog features a Q&A with US Signal's Daven Winans, Vice President of Engineering, on some of the main considerations to help ensure a successful cloud migration.
US Signal‘s Professional Services team has compiled as a list of some very specific technical hurdles — and mitigation strategies for them — that seems to grow with each migration performed.
Some of the issues that are generally applicable to all customers include:
Successful data migrations seem to share common traits. Here’s what we’ve found to be effective:
There isn’t so much a “need” to refactor/rebuild, as the option always remains to leave the application/workload at the existing site or location. However, if a rebuild/refactor enables the workload to migrate into the cloud or enables other pieces of the application to migrate to the cloud, the migration can and is used to enable this work. We frequently see migrations that occur in lockstep with other IT transformation initiatives at the same time because one enables the other.
Most cloud adoption/migration projects consist of some kind of hybrid element. Too often, there are workloads that aren’t appropriate for moving to the cloud due to various factors.
There are also good reasons to purposefully design hybrid solutions, where workloads and applications may exist in multiple data centers (self-hosted, private cloud and public cloud). That includes cost, performance and the services those locations offer. From the standpoint of preparation, it’s necessary to keep proximity in mind. The benefit of having items spread out is geographic diversity — until the point where user experience suffers from the lack of proximity.
There’s some good information in the blog Cloud Migration: Basic Considerations and in our Ready. Set. Migrate eBook. However, one of the best things an organization can do is sit down with a cloud services provider or a cloud consultant to determine the best solution to meet its best needs and goals. That may or may not be a cloud migration. It could be a hybrid IT strategy. It could be a phased cloud approach.
All organizations’ have unique IT environments. Their journeys to the cloud will be just as unique.
To learn how US Signal can help you migrate to the cloud, call 866.2. SIGNAL or email [email protected].
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Learn how to expand from on-prem network security to cloud security with these best practices and resources.
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