These Are the Mistakes You Need to Avoid When Migrating Your Business to the Cloud

Companies are increasingly aware of the need to migrate to the cloud to become more agile and resilient, but many companies have taken this step in the past without implementing a long-term strategy.

In addition, the pandemic has accelerated this process and has not served to make things right: meeting the requirements of security, reliability and adaptability. The most effective way to do this is to take advantage of integrated and extensible cloud services platforms that are ready to adapt quickly to the business requirements of the future.

But what are the mistakes to avoid in the transition to the cloud?

• Avoiding lacking solutions: Urgent and poorly designed cloud service implementations are prone to deliver poor results. A sufficiently planned strategy is needed to meet the key performance indicators required for digital transformation.
• Elimination of silos: Lack of coordination between different solution implementations leads to a dispersion of applications, which increases costs, as well as complexities and risks.
• Not opting for professional categories: Free and freemium services allow risk-free testing and can effectively fill capacity gaps in times of extreme need. However, limited feature sets, lack of robust customer support and unavailable SLA (Service Level Agreement) agreements can create liabilities and reduce long-term return on investment (ROI).
• Connected solutions. Communication solutions that rely on wired connections, desktop devices and premises-based infrastructures are not suitable for mobile or home workers.
• Maintaining traditional technologies. First-generation, cloud-based communications platforms lead to a dead-end in the technology roadmap. New, microservices-based ones do a much better job of supporting the speed and breadth of innovation that enterprises require.
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