Chapter 1: An Introduction to Hybrid Cloud Modernization
Moving from on-premises to the cloud is a very challenging task. Many enterprises are evaluating the process of cloud migration. This chapter will take a real-world scenario of an organization in the retail industry under cloud migration and look at its impact on the business. For simplicity, we will introduce the use case of Landorous. We will also get familiar with popular cloud migration patterns in different industries and evaluate them for Landorous to understand the best practice for a cloud migration strategy adoption. The Landorous case introduces cloud migration’s business and technical challenges and pain points. Later in this chapter, we will evaluate a suitable roadmap for cloud migration to overcome these challenges.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- An overview of the cloud migration problem
- Understanding the fundamentals of the cloud and cloud migration
- Learning about the industry patterns for cloud migration
- Developing a roadmap for successful cloud migration and modernization
- Discovering the myths in cloud migration