Cloud & Application Readiness Checklist

You’re thinking of moving your organization to the cloud, but how do you know if you’re ready? Making sure you’re prepared means thinking through all of the ways the change may impact your business is critical to minimize your chance of stepping on possible landmines.

A successful cloud migration requires careful planning, execution, and ongoing management to ensure that you’ll be able to leverage the full potential of cloud computing. This checklist provides a structured approach to assess your readiness and identify the areas you’ll need to address before moving to the cloud.

Important factors to consider include:
 

Business Goal Definition: The first step is to identify the business objectives driving the need for cloud migration. It is important to be able to articulate these goals. This includes understanding key drivers such as cost reduction, scalability, agility, security, and compliance.

Service Provider Assessment: Do a thorough assessment of providers’ capabilities, features, pricing, security, and compliance to determine the most appropriate provider for your needs.

Migration Strategy Development: Make sure to define the approach, methodology, timeline, and resources required for the migration process.

Legacy Application Readiness: Anticipate what will be needed to transition all of your existing applications and be sure to be running current, supported versions.

Data Management: Evaluate your current data management practices, including data storage, backup, recovery, and security.

Security and Compliance: Assess your current security and compliance policies and procedures and ensure they meet the cloud service provider's requirements.

Resource Readiness: Determine the skills, expertise, and capacity required for a successful cloud migration. This includes evaluating your current IT team's capabilities, as well as identifying any additional resources that may be required.

Budget and Cost Management: Calculate both the upfront and ongoing costs of cloud migration and develop a cost management plan.

Change Management: Identify the impact that the planned migration will have on business processes, personnel, and stakeholders, and develop a plan to manage change effectively.

Post-Migration Support: Identify the support requirements and develop a plan for ongoing monitoring and management of your new cloud environment.

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