Organizations are the world realizing it is time for migrating to the cloud. However, most organizations can not afford any downtime or mistakes during the migration to the cloud. Migrating to the cloud can be highly overwhelming, especially with large organizations and complex IT environments. To ensure the success of migrating SAP workloads to the cloud. Altivate’s experts share a checklist to help you plan a smooth migration to the cloud.
Firstly, an organization must choose the right cloud environment for their business that meets their business requirements. If you still haven’t selected a cloud solution, check out Altivate’s recommendation for the best cloud solutions for SAP workloads.
Assessing the current SAP workload
Migrating to the cloud can be challenging; therefore, a thorough assessment and discovery of the organization’s requirements are essential. Firstly, there must be an assessment of what to migrate to the cloud and what stays on-premises and, above all, ensuring the compatibility of the SAP applications with the cloud provider system. In addition to identifying the gaps in the processes and how to solve them through the cloud migration.
Secondly, taking into consideration the dependencies and understanding the workload of the apps is crucial. SAP Upgrade Dependency Analyzer can help map out business apps, database servers and different workloads. In addition to mapping workflows and existing architecture.
Planning the cloud migration
The migration to the cloud is a massive milestone for any organization. Moreover, it is a process to facilitate complexity and optimize performance, so proper planning is a must. The technology partner will provide great help when it comes to planning; the right partner will be able to offer a rigorous detailed plan, consider the costs and ensure compatibility with the new environment.
Organizations can build their plan on one the Gartner’s cloud migration 5 R strategies;
- Rehost
- Refactor
- Revise
- Rebuild
- Replace
Ensuring applying best practices during migrating to the cloud
Another great tip to ensure a smooth migration to the cloud is choosing a partner who is well aware of the best practices for cloud migration. It will make all the difference, when the partner is well aware of the organization’s needs, and customize a framework to meet these needs while maintaining solid cloud infrastructure and correctly implementing cloud controls.
Data Security
Security is paramount when it comes to the migration to the cloud, first of all, a full review of the on-premises security policies is required to understand how the data is being accessed, and what are the roles and permissions of every employee in the company. For instance, if employees are allowed to access company systems and files outside of the office it will make a difference in VPN solutions. By understanding the on-premises security, it could be easily transitioned and applied to the cloud as the basic security level, as an extension of your organization’s environment. In other words, the same security protections will be put into place.
Against the misconception, that implies that migrating SAP workload to the public cloud might be risky. The cloud follows a more powerful security policy with frequent upgrades.
Most importantly choosing a cloud provider who offers extra layers of security like network security and encryption, identity and access management (IAM), hypervisors and storage infrastructure.
Choosing the right partner
Finally and most importantly is choosing the right technology partner, this will ensure a smooth cloud migration, by facilitating technical issues, designing a strong framework and optimizing costs through choosing the right apps. It will also help you mitigate security risks and adds value through industry-focused consultants.
Altivate has extensive experience in helping clients from various industries during their cloud migration journey. Altivate is a proud SAP Gold Partner, AWS Select Partner, GCP Partner and Microsoft Partner, with teams experienced in different cloud providers and ready to provide customized solutions to every client according to their requirements.
