Relocate to the cloud – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

Relocate to the cloud Relocate method allows to move vSphere-based applications to AWS without any application changes. With AWS VMware cloud, you can quickly relocate hundreds of applications virtualized on vSphere to the AWS Cloud in just days. You will maintain consistent operations with your VMware Cloud environments. You can adapt and integrate additional cloud

Migration assessment tools – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

Migration assessment tools You don’t have to reinvent the wheel as you migrate your workloads and projects from your current environment to the cloud. As you can imagine, many others have already started this journey. AWS and third-party vendors offer various tools to facilitate this migration to facilitate this process. A few examples of services

What exactly is a digital transformation? – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

What exactly is a digital transformation? The term “digital transformation” is harder and harder to define because it is being overloaded to the point that it has become a nebulous concept. Like many fantastic technology trends, it is over-hyped and over-used. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), some studies report that up to 40% of

Digital transformation drivers – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

Digital transformation drivers One of the most important reasons companies are finally beginning to migrate their workloads to the cloud and transform their business is because they realize if they don’t disrupt themselves, someone else will do it for them. They see competition from start-ups that can start with a clean slate and without legacy

Digital transformation tips 2 – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

Tip #5 – Encourage risk-taking In other words, fail fast. There are only so many times you can fail to deliver results. But if failing only takes one week and you have a month to deliver results, that affords us the luxury of failing three times before we get it right the fourth time. Therefore,

Digital transformation tips – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

Digital transformation tips There are many ways to implement a digital transformation. Some methods are better than others. This section will cover some of our suggestions to shorten the implementation time and minimize disruption to our existing customer base. Let’s look at those tips. Tip #1 – Ask the right questions You should not just

Digital transformation pitfalls – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

Digital transformation pitfalls There are many more ways to fail and not as many ways to succeed. There are, however, common patterns to how digital transformations typically fail. Let’s review some of them. Lack of commitment from the C-Suite Even when the CEO says they are committed to completely transforming their business, they may still

Digital transformation pitfalls 2 – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

Going too fast To succeed, you must crawl before you walk and walk before you run. It is essential to prove concepts at a smaller scale before scaling them up across the enterprise and before you spend millions of dollars. Taking this route will allow you to make small mistakes and refine the transformation process

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) 2 – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

Transformation domains are enabled by a set of foundational capabilities which provide best practice guidance that helps customers improve their cloud readiness (their ability to leverage the cloud to transform effectively digitally). AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations. Each perspective comprises a set of capabilities that

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) As discussed in the previous section, you overserved some key pitfalls in cloud adoption. The organization started well with the pilot unable to move it further, or tech leadership is not aligned to focus on cloud modernization. In some cases, even if the organization migrates cloud, it cannot realize
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