Exploring fundamental practices for the cloud journey
This chapter will start looking into the first steps that any organization needs to take to start the journey to the cloud. Most organizations in today’s world have started their cloud journey to some extent. However, the majority of their footprints are still on-premises.
Therefore, it is essential to understand the following points:
- Motivation: Why cloud modernization is essential
- Tools: What can be migrated or modernized?
- Path: How to execute and deliver cloud modernization
So, we need to understand the business case to initiate the cloud journey. The correct business use case will help us to find out the answer to why. Once the why is answered, we need to look at the what, which mainly deals with the part of the ecosystem that can be moved to the cloud or re-innovated on the cloud.
In most cases, organizations have several components to identify which components from their IT ecosystem are...
