No easy oversight of hardware and software
maintenance contracts also makes it harder
to understand what you are paying for. As
always, the answer is to engineer systems
that break these silos, giving teams the
oversight they need to better plan and
manage operations, both onsite and in
the cloud. Without reviewing existing
infrastructure, companies cannot start the
migration journey, or assess progress once
they have begun.
Data silos prevent most businesses from
accurately assessing performance, which
makes forward planning an exercise in
guesswork, not evidence-based decision-
making. In many cases, real-time
information simply isn’t available or is
incomplete. This lack of oversight makes
strategic decision-making almost impossible
in the age of disruptive computing and
Digital Transformation. Increasing real-time
visibility will need to be a priority as you
transition to the cloud.
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MOST COMPANIES
SIMPLY DO
NOT FULLY
UNDERSTAND
THEIR CURRENT
INFRASTRUCTURE,
WHICH IS A
SIGNIFICANT
PROBLEM WHEN
PLANNING A
MIGRATION TO
THE CLOUD.
Knowing IT assets is one thing but
understanding how they are used is another.
Businesses with failing cloud migration
projects typically lack several key insights. In
the same way that businesses lack insight
into their existing infrastructure, many have
not fully understood how it is being used.
This means they are unable to align
services to infrastructure, map out service
dependencies, or build an application and
service roadmap to plan how cloud-based
systems will affect or improve system usage.
Despite massive improvements in data
protection technologies, many businesses
are still leaving themselves unprotected. For
many companies, disaster recovery plans
are regarded as an insurance policy and are
never tested or updated.
This is compounded by a fear of change
and an inability to reverse what they do
if something goes wrong, and can lead to
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