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Businesses who are considering moving towards the cloud should always be aware of all the challenges they will mostly encounter. Over the past decades, cloud computation has expanded tremendously with which there is a rising number of cloud providers and solutions. Experts and top studies find that businesses are adopting cloud for their infrastructural operations at a much faster rate. Before initiating businesses to make the jump, they must devise an effective strategy for migration to the cloud. That involves the identification of challenges associated with and figuring out to overcome them. As per the studies conducted by HostingTribunal, the public cloud service market is expected to a $623.3 billion by 2023 worldwide with 83% of enterprises already committing to it by 2020. Businesses are expected to allocate 30% of their IT budget to cloud computing. TERAIT"s Cloud computing services enabled design, development, integration, and launch of effective cloud-based IT applications for businesses by catering cloud solutions and services for cloud application development, cloud platform architecture design, cloud migration, SaaS services, DevOps, service orchestration, etc. This article emphasizes in acknowledgment of these topics. Successful migration of businesses to the cloud demands a lot of focus at varied phases from your enterprise. Without apt preparation, businesses shouldn't deal to face the challenges of cloud migration. Without this, it would be costly and dangerous for their businesses and their data. Proper awareness about these challenges will support businesses in dealing with them before they kick-start their cloud migration with so many advantages. 

Stated Below are Six Challenges that Businesses Face During Cloud Migration:

 

• Training of professionals on cloud solutions

While introducing newer technologies to business operations, they must make sure that every professional in the workforce who incorporates technology is on board. Assuming every professional will be able to adapt or understand will be a risk. Give ample time for getting employees to get in sync with the cloud operations and the solutions the business operations are integrating. This will not only save a lot of headaches but also assist the businesses in the long run than dumping the technology directly onto them.

• Preventing cloud vendor lock-in

Even if your initial expectations for a cloud vendor are positive, you may find after starting the cloud migration process that your vendor isn't working for you. Vendor lock-in is a common problem for adopters of cloud technology; because the process of moving data from one cloud to another is a long, costly process, most businesses will simply stick to one vendor even if it isn't the best fit for them. When you're choosing cloud providers, it's important to consider what your cloud goals are and which vendor is the most likely to help you achieve them. You should also look for service-level agreements (SLAs) that contain information on what the vendor will do to help you in case you want to stop using their cloud services.
 

• Planning a cloud migration strategy

Businesses can't just execute the adoption of newer technology to the operations without a well-planned strategy. Cloud Migration is also no exception to this rule. Businesses should plan accordingly for their migration before initiating the transformation towards the cloud. This is an essential part of the process. This not only just restricts businesses towards choosing the ideal cloud service provider for their businesses. They should consider other factors such as cost analysis, projected downtime, employee training, and an estimated time for executing the migration. 
 

• Breaking down your cloud migration into stages

The worst decision businesses could possibly take when it comes to migration of business operations to the cloud is moving every business operation onto the cloud just at once. With the eagerness of businesses for migration of data into their cloud, they must be sure of which data to be transferred to be migrated over first. With efficient general practices for initiating the migration of non-essential or redundant data first will be better as they will still be testing the waters when they initiate the migration process. This makes it possible for staff to not make many errors that lead to erasing, corrupting, or making business data insecure. Businesses should not risk what's happening to the business-critical or sensitive data, especially if businesses need to maintain compliance throughout all operations.
 

• Financial cost related to cloud migration

Cloud migration can be expensive, especially if businesses don't project the potential financial impact much beforehand. Cloud technology is often cost-effective for businesses in the long term. It can be expensive depending on how much data, businesses are planning to move. Businesses don't have to consider the financial cost as a factor while using cloud solutions. Businesses should consider the overall cost for training the workforce for mastering the new technology and the charges needed for rewriting or replacing data that can prove to compatible with the cloud architecture.
 

• Cloud security questions

Security is one of the important factors that discourage businesses while adopting cloud technology. But if businesses consider smart approaches to considering security as a top priority, specifically while driving the integration of newer technologies. When businesses incorporate cloud solutions, they should essentially ask an external party for holding onto their data. Opt for trustworthy parties for making cloud operations flourish. Businesses should be well aware of their cloud provider's security practices. Businesses should also be well aware of the location where the data will be stored, however, the provider encrypts their incoming and outgoing data, and well aware of all the regulations the provider should be compliant with.

The final part of cloud migration is a key phase of this process that can take a long period of time, may up to several months depending on the business size and the amount of data migrating to the cloud. If businesses are well-acknowledged of all these challenges, they can overtake all the hurdles related to the incorporation of business practices with the migration of the cloud. TERAIT's Cloud Solutions is a single-stop cloud service provider for high-end cloud services with seamless scaling and migration of desired application workloads, with suitable frameworks for addressing all challenges for a seamless transition to the cloud. Ping us right away!