Crafting an effective Cloud Strategy

Start With assessing your current IT landscape

Prior to initiating your cloud journey, it is essential to conduct an assessment of your organization's existing IT landscape. During this step, ensure you have a precise understanding of both the applications and data classification within your organization. Identify any pain points, gain insights into various legacy systems, and grasp the varying confidentiality levels of your data.

Align your cloud strategy with your business objectives

Companies move to the cloud for various reasons. Some want to shift away from costly datacenter infrastructure investments and prefer the pay-as-you-use model of the public cloud. Others are drawn to the cloud for its innovation capabilities, especially with technologies like generative AI. Additionally, some choose cloud migration for its flexibility and scalability.

To align your cloud strategy with these business objectives, you need to have a good overview of the different applications and workloads you wish to transition to the cloud and whether you will emphasize the use of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Software as a Service (SaaS).

The success of your cloud strategy is highly dependent on how good it is aligned with your business objectives. In the end, having a clear cloud strategy ensures that the cloud becomes an enabler rather than just another IT upgrade.

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Understanding the available cloud spectrum

Choose the right cloud deployment model tailored to your specific needs. Whether it is public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud, each comes with its own set of advantages. The public cloud can offer maximum flexibility for your workloads by hosting your data and applications on a shared platform hosted by the cloud provider. Private clouds are operated by your trusted cloud partner and hosted in local datacenters, which can be preferred from a security or regulatory perspective. Combining the best of both worlds is possible with a hybrid cloud, whereby you extend your on-premise or edge infrastructure with a private cloud and the public cloud, allowing your applications to switch smoothly between the different environments.

Manage your resources to optimize the costs

Optimize costs without compromising performance by leveraging cloud-native services and exploring serverless computing options. Implement automation for resource scaling and allocation, ensuring that your infrastructure aligns with actual demand. A well-architected cloud environment not only boosts efficiency but also optimizes expenditure.

Security, compliance, and how Sovereign Cloud can help you

Security in the cloud is paramount. Using the cloud means that you trust another party to run your workloads, your applications, and to store your sensitive data. To guarantee your data and applications stay safe, it is necessary to implement encryption protocols, and to make use of monitoring mechanisms that continuously scan your cloud.

Some datasets and applications are extremely confidential, discouraging companies from moving them to the public cloud even though the cloud provider offers a high level of security. This is often because of privacy or other (industry-specific) regulatory restraints. In such cases, the use of a sovereign cloud is a viable alternative.

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