Imagine you live in an apartment. It's been nice and cosy, but the building is starting to become old. Utilities don't work as well as they used to. You learn that investing in a suburban estate is much better. There is more space, fast and efficient service delivery, and better security. Rates and nearby amenities are cheaper. You consider your options and realise you are much better off in that estate.
To complicated matters, you run your business from your apartment and you don't have the luxury of downtime. This means taking inventory, moving boxes and unpacking them, all timed according to your business's needs.
There are also other considerations: you require a vehicle to conveniently access your new neighbourhood. Your estate property has a garden—you require tools or a garden service to keep it pretty and inviting. And all that space in your new home invites so much opportunity, but it can become overwhelming.
All this must happen while maintaining your business and keeping your customers happy.
The advantages of moving to the estate far outweigh the challenges. Yet those are significant challenges. Get the move wrong, and you can cause a lot of headaches for yourself.
The subtle art of cloud migration
This analogy about changing homes is the reality of cloud migration. The cloud is better. It provides improved features, lower costs, and far more opportunities. Yet the differences between traditional business systems and new cloud systems are enough to complicate any migration. These differences can overload budgets, erode value, and hinder business performance: the opposite of what the cloud promises!
To avoid cloud migration blues, work with partners who know what they are doing. Vodacom Business and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have helped many organisations migrate their vital systems to superior cloud environments.
They use the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program based on AWS's experience migrating thousands of enterprise customers to the cloud. MAP uses an outcome-driven three-phased framework (Assess; Mobilise; Migrate and Modernise) to achieve migration goals. MAP tailors training approaches and content, working with skilled partners like Vodacom Business to keep your migration on track.
Vodacom Business is an advanced AWS consulting partner and AWS Outposts-Ready Partner. It maintains seven major data centres across South Africa—backed by its in-house Cloud Centre of Excellence and supported by 1,300 trained staff and 330 AWS Certified Professional and Specialty experts (not to mention Vodafone's global footprint and resources).
Banish those cloud migration blues
Moving house is one of the most stressful activities that we experience. It's hard enough to move from one similar home to another. When you make significant changes for the better, that can still bring unique and frustrating challenges. Too often, we lose sight of the trees and wonder if we shouldn't have just stayed put.
What a waste that would be! The cloud can significantly reduce costs, boost staff productivity, improve operational and business resilience, enhance security, and lay the groundwork for a modern business that competes in the 21st century.
Nine out of ten technology chiefs have reported failed or disrupted cloud migrations, and almost three-quarters of surveyed companies have migrated systems away from the cloud due to underwhelming results.
Be one of the ten percent who avoid cloud migration blues. Enlist the experience of seasoned professionals who have handled thousands of successful cloud migrations. With Vodacom Business and AWS on your side, you can move your stuff and keep your business running simultaneously, then explore the opportunities that only your new home in the cloud can provide.
Turn to us
Cloud storage, such as from AWS, is very powerful and offers different options. To find the best choices, talk to an AWS partner such as Vodacom Business and discover what cloud storage can do for your company. You never have to buy a hard drive for your business again!
Stop adding rooms to your data house—turn to AWS from Vodacom Business so that you can stop playing housekeeper and get back to business.
