When Does It Make Sense to Migrate?

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Migrating your infrastructure is an expensive and time-consuming operation, and ideally, you would never have to do it. Unfortunately in the real world, as a company grows and new technologies come onto the market, it is likely that the original infrastructure no longer best fulfils your product’s needs.

In this article, we discuss examples of companies that migrated and how they came to their decisions.

After losing ~$3 million following severe on-site database corruption, Netflix realised it urgently needed to move to a more reliable and secure data storage system¹². Choosing when to migrate (and what to migrate to) can be a million-dollar decision. Part of this decision involves understanding the options available: public clouds are managed by third-party providers and shared across organisations; private clouds are dedicated to a single customer³; and hybrid models combine private and public clouds, allowing data and applications to be shared between them.

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When Does It Make Sense to Migrate?