Which cloud service type is most suited to a lift and shift migration from an on-premises datacenter to a cloud deployment?

What is cloud migration? Cloud migration is the movement of workloads — such as an application, a set of physical or virtual servers, or a database within an analytics ecosystem — from an on-premises environment like a data center to the cloud. A migration strategy may also involve movement from one cloud to another. For analytics workloads in particular, migrating to cloud computing offers unique high-level advantages over sticking exclusively to on-premises infrastructure. The environments from which these workloads are being migrated typically feature legacy infrastructure: hardware and software that are costly to maintain and incapable of delivering — on their own — the speed and scalability that real-time and AI analytics require. The overall migration process most often targets a public cloud environment, offered and maintained by a major cloud service provider such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. If an enterprise is consuming many cloud computing services simultaneously across more than one cloud, then it is pursuing a Migration can also involve a Virtually anything currently running on-premises can be migrated to a public, hybrid, or multi-cloud environment. Business applications and storage are among the most commonly moved workloads. But as public cloud services have evolved, the range of possibilities has expanded to also include numerous artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning engines (ML), cloud databases, network connectivity tools, and ot...

In this article As you consider and evaluate public cloud services, it’s critical to understand the shared responsibility model and which security tasks are handled by the cloud provider and which tasks are handled by you. The workload responsibilities vary depending on whether the workload is hosted on Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), or in an on-premises datacenter Division of responsibility In an on-premises datacenter, you own the whole stack. As you move to the cloud some responsibilities transfer to Microsoft. The following diagram illustrates the areas of responsibility between you and Microsoft, according to the type of deployment of your stack. For all cloud deployment types, you own your data and identities. You are responsible for protecting the security of your data and identities, on-premises resources, and the cloud components you control (which varies by service type). Regardless of the type of deployment, the following responsibilities are always retained by you: • Data • Endpoints • Account • Access management Cloud security advantages The cloud offers significant advantages for solving long standing information security challenges. In an on-premises environment, organizations likely have unmet responsibilities and limited resources available to invest in security, which creates an environment where attackers are able to exploit vulnerabilities at all layers. The following diagram shows a tradi...

As enterprises prepare for the future, more and more companies are undergoing the shift to managing their data in the cloud. Cloud migration brings the opportunity for increased flexibility, scalability, and convenience; still, there are common pitfalls that lead to over-complications or overspending in the data migration process. While undergoing cloud adoption, there are proper steps you can take to 1. Rehost Nicknamed “lift and shift,” the rehosting approach to digital transformation increases the speed of cloud migration while simultaneously reducing the risk. When rehosting, existing physical and virtual servers move to a compatible Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution including servers, storage, firewalls, and datacenters. Rehosting is advantageous if you want to move fast, have servers run packaged software, own applications without an active roadmap, or work to avoid Capex on aging hardware; however, speed of cloud migration doesn’t necessarily equate to speed of the business in the cloud afterwards. For this reason, you may only want to consider rehosting if it’s part of your overall cloud migration strategy. 2. Replatform The replatform cloud migration strategy involves changing your operating system or database engine. Without requiring code change, replatforming allows the use of cloud native features to optimize workload and services that are close to existing infrastructure. If you’re looking to clean up your asset management; change the OS and databas...

We’re sorry. We could not find a match for your search. We suggest you try the following to help find what you're looking for: • Check the spelling of your keyword search. • Use synonyms for the keyword you typed, for example, try “application” instead of “software.” • Start a new search. Clear Search Oracle Cloud Lift Services The most successful customers engage with cloud specialists from the start. Oracle Cloud Lift Services provide guidance from cloud engineers on planning, architecting, prototyping and managing cloud migrations. Clients can move critical workloads in weeks, or even days, instead of months by leveraging these included services for customer tenancies. “At Cargill, we're constantly looking for new ways to improve and expand our business. Oracle's cloud architects took us from zero to production through the Oracle Cloud Lift Services work and made it a smooth transition to launch new Cargill services in their cloud all while maintaining a strong focus on security. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offered us the performance and support we needed to get off the ground and into the cloud. ” Terence Schofield Quantitative Trading Technology Director, Cargill Dedicated engineering resources A comprehensive cloud solution includes infrastructure, software, processes, and people. As part of the Oracle Cloud Lift program, Oracle dedicates its top engineers to quickly migrate eligible customer workloads to Oracle Cloud, enabling customers to derive value from OCI inve...

One key question that many IT leaders ask as their organizations prepare for their move to the cloud is whether they should migrate or modernize workloads. In this article we would like to dive deep into the concepts of “Migrate” and “Modernize”, explain what they mean to us, what they mean to customers, and what the tradeoffs between them are. Read to the end for links to useful resources that can help support you in your choice of whether you should modernize or migrate parts of your application portfolio. Defining the concepts Cloud migration is the process of moving applications, infrastructure, and data from one location, often a company’s private, on-site ("on-premises") datacenter to a We talk about “migrating” a workload when we take its components that run in a data center or a third cloud today and move them to Azure. In many cases the target resources for a migration deployment are virtual machines (Infrastructure as a service). Tools like Whether you are using platform or infrastructure services, the workload’s code and architectural components will largely remain the same in a migration. A SQL database – for example – will still contain the same rows and tables at the end of the process, it’ll just be hosted elsewhere. Cloud Modernization is the process of updating existing (sometimes legacy) applications for newer computing approaches, including newer application frameworks and use of cloud-native technologies. This can be done using PaaS, containers, low cod...

Most organizations have on-premises applications burdened with high capital expenses, complex management, scalability challenges, and hardware that needs to be replaced every 3-5 years. Maintaining existing on-premises infrastructure results in increased operational burden and drains IT budgets for organizations that are already budget and resource strapped. With these on-premises challenges, enterprise IT organizations want to move to the cloud and away from the traditional, costly lifecycle of buying, managing and replacing on-premises hardware, software, services, and networking. Most migrations happen in phases to minimize risk and speed up time to production. The most common approach is to lift-and-shift (also known as "rehost") an application and its data with as few changes as possible. This enables the fastest time to production. Once on AWS, it is easier to modernize and rearchitect application elements, leveraging cloud services and optimizations that provide the most significant benefits. AWS offers fast, reliable, and seamless lift-and-shift migration by providing automated tools such as

The following exercises help establish the iterative processes to assess, migrate, optimize, secure, and manage those workloads. To prepare you for this phase of the cloud adoption lifecycle, we recommend the following steps: The Migrate methodology and the steps above build on the following assumptions: • The methodology that migration sprints fit within migration waves or releases. You define migration waves or releases by using the Plan, Ready, and Adopt methodologies. Within each migration sprint, a batch of workloads is migrated to the cloud. • Before migrating workloads, you've identified, configured, and deployed at least one • Migration is commonly associated with the terms lift and shift or rehost. This methodology and the steps above are built on the belief that no datacenter and few workloads should be migrated using a pure rehost approach. While you can rehost many workloads, customers more often choose to modernize specific assets within each workload. During this iterative process, the balance between speed and modernization is a common discussion point. Migration effort The actions required to migrate workloads generally falls into three efforts, or phases, for each workload: assess workloads, deploy workloads, and release workloads. This section of the Cloud Adoption Framework teaches readers how to maximize the return from each phase required to migrate a workload to production. In a standard two-week iteration, an experienced migration team can complete t...