Security News > 2021 > December > Why is a well thought-out approach to cloud migration imperative?

With 80% of organizations now using a mix of cloud and on-premises database environments, the survey shows that the focus of data professionals is shifting to addressing the difficulties of migrating to the cloud ahead of improving the performance of their database estates.

There is not one cloud there are many, with the 2021 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera revealing that organizations now use an average of 2.6 public clouds and are experimenting with an additional 1.1.

The complexity comes when managing and monitoring these multiple databases on many different platforms, whether on-premises or on the big three cloud providers, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

A further 35% use tools that are built in-house which, while typically sufficient for small on-premises estates with ten servers or less, cannot handle growing estates, connect to the cloud, or handle multiple cloud environments.

To avoid problems and manage the move to larger, hybrid estates, organizations need a way to monitor everything, from local servers and virtual machines to cloud instances and services, whatever flavor of cloud they opt for.

As Grant Fritchey, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Redgate Advocate, concludes: "With all this in mind, as you continue your work in the cloud, or, as you begin your move to the cloud, assume you're likely to experience a hybrid scenario. Most organizations are going to need to keep an eye on their systems, even though those systems are both on-premises and in some sort of cloud situation. Planning for this hybrid situation just makes the whole process a little easier."

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