The Boomi cloud migration process involves moving a company’s entire digital ecosystem from one cloud to another. This ecosystem is filled with all the essential data a business needs to thrive – think databases, applications, and services that are vital to day to day operations.

This is why, if you’re thinking of starting a cloud migration, you will want to be strategic about it.

By creating a cloud migration strategy, you’re establishing the process by which you execute the movement of critical business functions. Taking a data focused approach to cloud migration will maintain data integrity and accessibility, and also help you optimise your infrastructure to meet your business goals.

Define your cloud migration goals

Just like most things in life, knowing where you’re going is the most important part of the journey. So what’s driving your need to migrate? What business needs and goals are you trying to fulfil?

Above all else, make sure your goals are viable. Studies have shown that most cloud migration projects either don’t achieve the desired results or take far longer than expected. You may find you need to break your migration down into more manageable chunks.

Create a cloud architecture to meet your needs

You may find that the best solution combines cloud migration with other data services, such as data warehousing. Working with cloud migration specialists guarantees a better end solution – you map out your needs, and they map out the perfect structure.

Is it time to consider a multi-cloud strategy?

Some businesses benefit from using a multi-cloud strategy. Reasons to consider moving your data to more than one cloud service include:

• Different vendors have different applications and capabilities which might meet your business need.
• Other vendors might be able to provide lower costs
• Some vendors are better suited for handling high risk data than others
• Keeping data across several clouds can mitigate the impact of cloud downtime or security risks.

Spring clean your data

Before starting your cloud migration journey, make sure to remove discrepancies and duplicates in your data. Otherwise cloud migration will be more difficult, the monthly costs for storage can be higher.

Low-code platforms

Cloud migration requires a certain amount of one time coding. Boomi Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a low/no code option that reduces the burden on your IT department and allows your team to make changes daily, by themselves.

Boomi Cloud Migration: 7 strategies worth trying

Rehost

Otherwise known as the “lift and shift”. Rehosting is all about moving a direct copy of an organisation’s data infrastructure directly into the cloud.

Refactor

A step above rehosting. known as the “lift tinker and shift”. It’s all about moving a direct copy of an organisations data infrastructure directly into the cloud.

Revise

This method involves making architecture changes to a system before migrating it to the cloud. Businesses tend to opt for this when they need to optimise cloud services.

Rebuild

This is a ground-up approach to rebuilding data architecture. It allows you to take complete control.

Replace

Replacing involves scrapping the existing architecture and migrating to a prebuilt architecture.

Repurchase

The least complicated technique… just buying a new solution.

Replatform

If your primary goal is to improve data management without any other significant changes, replatforming might be the best strategy for you. It involves tinkering with your existing platform and creating a better way of working.

If your initial discovery phase and analysis show that now is not the time to conduct your migration to the cloud, it’s perfectly fine to hit pause and wait until there’s a valid reason to make the move.