Define your cloud strategy

DEEP helps you build a cloud strategy aligned with your goals, taking into account your infrastructure, constraints, and key challenges.

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What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing allows you to host your infrastructure on the internet rather than on your premises. This solution offers greater flexibility and enhanced security. Depending on your needs, you can choose between different types of cloud:

On-Premise Cloud

The IT infrastructure is hosted and managed directly on the company’s premises, offering full control over data and systems.

Hybrid Cloud

Combines on-site and cloud resources for greater flexibility, allowing workloads to be distributed as needed.

Public Cloud

Services are hosted on shared infrastructure accessible via the internet—ideal for scalability and cost efficiency.

Private Cloud

The cloud environment is dedicated to a single organization, ensuring a high level of security and customization.

Multicloud

Uses multiple cloud providers to avoid dependency on a single vendor and to optimize performance or costs.

Define your Cloud Strategy in 6 Steps

One of the first things to do is to define your cloud strategy. To do this, it’s important to follow several steps to ensure it aligns with your company’s cloud goals and allows you to fully benefit from the cloud.

Step 1: Assess Business Needs

Start by identifying the elements, applications, and data you want to migrate to the cloud. This will depend on various factors such as your budget or technical constraints.

Step 2: Define Cloud Strategy Objectives

Setting objectives helps guide the implementation of your cloud strategy. Involve all relevant stakeholders to define these goals. Cloud strategy objectives may include:

Reducing IT costs
Improving agility and flexibility
Driving innovation
Enhancing security and compliance
Boosting collaboration and productivity
Developing a new business model

Define KPIs for these objectives to evaluate and measure the success of your cloud strategy.

Step 3: Choose the Right Type of Cloud

Based on your needs and goals, we’ll help you choose the best cloud solution among the three main models:

Software as a Service (SaaS): Offers high accessibility, allowing your teams to work from anywhere.
Platform as a Service (PaaS): Provides speed and flexibility.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): Helps save time and costs, offering scalability and flexibility

Step 4: Choose the Right Providers

There are many cloud providers offering different services and features. We can advise you on the various existing cloud providers such as Oracle, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, and more.
Thanks to their certifications across multiple cloud platforms, Digora experts can guide you toward the provider that best fits your organization’s needs.

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Step 5: Develop a Migration Plan

Establish a migration plan that allows you to anticipate the risks of moving to the cloud and ensures a smooth transition:

Choose the migration model (Refactoring, Replatforming, Lift-and-Shift)
Select the appropriate cloud tools and services
Create a migration timeline to plan each phase and minimize business disruptions
Conduct migration tests to identify and resolve issues before the full migration

Step 6: Execute the Cloud Strategy

Once the migration plan is developed, it’s time to implement the cloud strategy. This involves:

Migrating applications and data to the cloud with continuous monitoring
Configuring the cloud infrastructure by setting up the various services
Training users so they can efficiently use and manage these new services

Cloud Strategy: Key Recommendations

Beyond the steps outlined, several factors can help ensure the success of your cloud project.

1. Involve Stakeholders

Engage executives and IT leaders to ensure strategic alignment and technical feasibility.
Include end users to make sure the solution meets real-world needs.
Encourage broad collaboration with partners and clearly communicate the goals of your cloud strategy.

2. Assess Risks

Identify vulnerabilities and threats related to the security, privacy, and compliance of your cloud data and applications.
Implement mitigation measures tailored to each identified risk to reduce their impact.
Prepare business continuity (BCP) and disaster recovery (DRP) plans to ensure service resilience in case of incidents.

3. Stay Flexible

Adopt an agile approach to quickly adapt to changing business needs.
Structure your strategy in a modular way to integrate or modify services without disrupting existing systems.
Rely on scalable architectures, such as microservices, to support continuous adaptation.

How to Get Support?

Our experts support you at every stage of your cloud strategy and provide the best advice—whether it’s choosing the right type of cloud, selecting the cloud model, developing the migration plan, managing the migration itself, or ensuring the ongoing operation of your cloud environment.

Later on, the Cloud Assessment will further strengthen your evaluation regarding the feasibility and execution of your cloud project

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