Can a Cloud Roadmap Strategy Help You Overcome Complexities?

Cloud computing is here to stay. Besides its innumerable benefits, there are hefty challenges too, such as inconsistent operations, complexity, and heterogeneity. According to Wakefield Research, over 92% of organizations are amid app modernization or planning to. However, many of these projects fail because they grow complex, expensive, and riskier. The study also reveals that nearly 80% of software developers and architecture engineers fail in an app modernization effort. Can a cloud roadmap strategy help organizations overcome these challenges? In this article at CIO Insight, Drew Robb explains different aspects of cloud infrastructure complexity and approaches to mitigate it.

Overcoming Challenges With a Cloud Roadmap Strategy

What does Wakefield Research indicate further?

Three out of four responders indicated that app modernization efforts cost them nearly $1.5 million.

58% of respondents revealed that projects usually took around 16 months for successful execution.

Another 27% pointed out that app modernization projects ran for two or more years.

The figures can be discouraging for organizations that intend to migrate more applications to the cloud. However, with a robust cloud roadmap strategy, organizations can solve cloud computing complexity.

How Do You Boost Cloud Readiness?

Often organizations look up to hyper scalers, such as Google Cloud, Facebook, and Amazon, that have a cloud-only architecture. “They admire the flexibility this offers and become envious of the capabilities, performance, and cost-efficiency these providers build into their data centers and application portfolios,” says Robb. However, businesses rush headlong into the cloud in their digital transformation efforts without understanding the complexity of modern IT.

Fortunately, a solid cloud roadmap strategy can help business take forward their cloud journey. Companies can successfully integrate cloud computing by following a step-by-step process.

Companies must analyze their current technology portfolio.

They must use KPIs and other metrics to determine the benefits of the cloud once adopted.

Businesses must assess their total cost of ownership (TCO).

The cloud roadmap strategy must give companies extra visibility to the implementation process, highlight the dos and don’ts of the journey, and list security considerations.

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