Jason English in TheNewStack, for New Relic
As cloud passes through its early adopter years to mainstream adoption among the world’s largest companies, development teams are being asked to plot a course for migrating critical applications to public and private cloud infrastructure.
Two-thirds of these companies form a type of cloud council or management committee to select the right priorities for migration, taking into account expected KPIs and ROI figures as measures of success.
While governance and metrics are generally good things, if stakeholders focus exclusively on outcomes, rather than awareness of what is needed to safely traverse the cloud journey, they may have already gotten off on the wrong foot.
As many as 74% of IT leaders in Global 500 companies say they have experienced cloud migration failures that caused them to return one or more applications back to their conventional data centers.
Where do cloud migration projects go wrong?
We’re witnessing a perennial migration — large enterprises porting monolithic applications to cloud — sometimes with unrealistic expectations. The innate elastic scalability of cloud compute and storage does not automatically accelerate successful deployments, nor answer performance, risk and cost concerns by itself.
Much like a conventional application, a cloud application is only as performant as its slowest service, only as secure as its weakest link, and only as cost efficient as it was designed to be.
Perhaps the highest profile cloud failure to date would be the launch of the first US public healthcare exchange on healthcare.gov in October 2013… [Read more.]
Read the entire BrainBlog article on TheNewStack.io here: https://thenewstack.io/bring-observability-on-your-cloud-voyage-or-go-home/.
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