5 Tips to Modernize Data Integration for the Cloud

Read this eBook to learn the best practices for modernizing data integration for the cloud, helping you to ensure project workloads, budgets, and timelines are within your target goals.

Introduction

The terms ‘migration’ and ‘modernization’ are very often used interchangeably. However, in contrast to a migration project, modernization encompasses more transformative changes to applications, infrastructure, data, and business processes to prepare for and take advantage of the latest technologies.

The agility and scalability that the cloud brings are the number one reason organizations are looking to modernize. Operating applications entirely on-premises is rapidly becoming unthinkable. Still, there are reasons why on-premises operations cannot be eliminated, including the restrictions imposed by data residency laws, regulatory requirements, and other specialized security and control mandates.

Such limitations aside, the cloud is the future of work, and modernization is the way to get there. But do not for a minute, imagine that you can ‘modernize’ by just picking up your existing systems and data and dropping them into a cloud platform. This kind of “lift and shift” approach does not work. Instead, carefully planned, incremental, and orchestrated IT modernization is the way forward.

An incremental approach means business operations are supported by a hybrid IT architecture of cloud and on-premises systems. So, strategic planning should focus on identifying and sequencing carefully scoped and bounded projects that will result in your optimal IT configuration over time.