If your organization has challenges with application and network performance, it can adversely affect employee productivity. This will also impact customer relationships which can lead to lost customers and revenue.
No organization can afford these consequences. To avoid them, your organization may be looking to migrate infrastructure to the cloud to improve overall network and application performance.
However, if your organization has legacy applications in your network it can be difficult to migrate these to the cloud. Understanding how best to migrate them will help you with the process.
Coeo understands how important reliable network and application performance is and has helped thousands of organizations move their infrastructure and applications to the cloud to improve performance.
By the end of this article, you will understand the benefits of migrating legacy applications to the cloud, the steps required to migrate legacy applications to the cloud, and whether migrating them is the best decision for your organization.
The benefits of migrating legacy applications to the cloud
Legacy applications typically form the backbone of your network environment but often run on outdated technology that can lead to poor performance and become increasingly more expensive to manage and maintain.
If your organization is dealing with poor performance from your network and everyday applications, migrating legacy applications to the cloud can be a process that might help. Some of the benefits of migrating legacy applications to the cloud include:
Improved scalability
Migrating these legacy applications to the cloud can improve overall scalability. This improved scalability helps your network scale your resources to match the demands of your growing organization.
Cost savings
Legacy applications have become increasingly more costly to manage and maintain as more organizations move to the cloud.
Migrating these legacy applications to the cloud reduces the cost of the application replacing expensive upfront hardware costs and maintenance fees with less expensive pay-as-you-go monthly or yearly pricing models.
Increased operational efficiency
Migrating legacy applications to the cloud can help improve employee productivity and overall operational efficiency.
Migrating legacy applications to the cloud can help automate routine management tasks enabling employees to focus on other more demanding business initiatives and core functions.
Improved network flexibility
The cloud is a public platform that can be accessed by any user with a reliable internet connection. Because of this, migrating legacy applications to the cloud improves overall flexibility for your network applications.
Migrating legacy applications to the cloud enables employees to access the applications from anywhere. This is advantageous for organizations working in a remote or hybrid workforce.
Better integration with network infrastructure and other applications
Migrating outdated legacy applications to the cloud enables you to integrate more effectively with other applications.
Migrating these applications makes them more compatible with other modern services, tools, and applications resulting in more streamlined workflows.
If you would like to speak with our team to learn more about migrating to the cloud or ask any questions you may have you can schedule an appointment.
The steps required to migrate legacy applications to the cloud
Now you understand the benefits of migrating legacy applications to the cloud. However, it is also important to understand the steps required to migrate legacy applications to the cloud. These steps include:
Infrastructure analysis
Modern cloud infrastructure operates fundamentally differently than traditional data centers. These differences can impact how applications perform after migrating to the cloud.
Because of this, it is important to understand the traffic patterns and latency requirements of your legacy applications to help avoid post-migration performance issues.
Choose migration strategy
The next step in migrating legacy applications to the cloud after identifying and analyzing application infrastructure is to choose how you would like to migrate your applications. There are several ways to migrate legacy applications including:
Rehost
The rehost approach redeploys legacy applications to the cloud and computes the resources without making any modifications. This is typically the fastest approach to cloud migration since there are no modifications involved.
Refactor
The refactoring approach modifies a small portion of the underlying codebase for improved reliability in the cloud. A legacy application may be refactored during the migration for better use in the cloud rather than residing in the on-premise database.
This can help your organization eliminate the need to deploy a separate database in the cloud that is separate from your network infrastructure and applications.
Plan implementation
Once you have selected the migration strategy, you must plan the implementation documenting all the dependencies. It is important to document:
- Stored procedures and triggers
- Database features
- Data type compatibility issues
Performance testing and execution
Before going through with the migration, it is important to test the cloud application. Establish performance metrics before migrating to help validate the success of the migration.
Once the application has been tested successfully, your organization can proceed with the migration process.
Is migrating legacy applications to the cloud the right decision for your organization?
Now you understand the benefits of migrating legacy applications to the cloud and the steps required to migrate them. However, it is also important to determine whether migrating legacy applications to the cloud is the right decision for your organization.
If your organization is looking to improve application performance, flexibility, and scalability with your legacy applications, migrating them to the cloud may be the right decision for your organization.
Additionally, if your organization is looking to save money, migrating your legacy applications to the cloud may be a good choice.
Finally, if you are trying to integrate your legacy applications with other cloud applications that your organization uses on a daily basis, migrating to the cloud may be a good decision.
Determining whether you should migrate legacy applications to the cloud
Now you understand the benefits of migrating legacy applications to the cloud, the steps required to do so, and whether it is the right decision for your organization. This will help you determine whether your organization should migrate legacy applications to the cloud.
No organization can operate effectively with poor-performing applications that are used daily in the workplace. This will hinder employee productivity resulting in damaged customer relationships leading to lost revenue and customers.
Migrating legacy applications to the cloud can help solve and mitigate these challenges. Understanding the benefits and steps to migrate legacy applications will help determine whether that is the best decision for your organization.
Coro understands how important reliable applications and network performance is and has helped thousands of organizations migrate to the cloud to improve overall performance and reliability.
We want you to understand the benefits and steps for migrating legacy applications to the cloud so you can determine whether it is a good choice for your organization.
If you would like to speak with our team to learn more about migrating to the cloud or ask any questions you may have you can schedule an appointment.
Now that you understand the benefits and steps of migrating legacy applications to the cloud and whether it is the right decision for your organization, read this article to understand the factors that affect the cost of cloud migration:
