When your company decides to move from a server to the cloud, it is up to the IT manager to oversee the transition and ensure that everything moves smoothly without any problems. With cloud migration, there are steps to prepare for both the computers and IT hardware and the other employees in the company to guarantee success.

1. How IT Manager Should Handle a Safe
Transition to the Cloud
When your company decides to move from a server to the cloud, it is up to the IT manager
to oversee the transition and ensure that everything moves smoothly without any problems.
With cloud migration, there are steps to prepare for both the computers and IT hardware
and the other employees in the company to guarantee success. Through ensuring that the
hardware and people are ready for cloud computing, you will make a seamless conversion.
Prepare the Company's People
Although for most employees their day-to-day activities on the computer will not change
once you have moved to cloud computing, there will still be several changes your
employees must learn when accessing files and the network now that it is on the cloud
rather than a server. You will need to first understand the culture of your company and take
the time to communicate to your fellow employees the change and what it will entail. Your IT
team should be ready to handle questions and problems that will arise. You should also
provide training for employees who may not understand cloud migration and how to handle
the process. If you have executive support behind you, then this will be easy to accomplish.

2. Create a Road Map and Plan
You will have to make a plan to simplify how you migrate everything from the server onto
the cloud while safely migrating everything. How and when you move your applications
depends on the cloud deployment model your company adopts, whether it is a private
cloud, an off premise hosted private cloud, an off premise shared virtual private cloud, or a
public cloud. Cloud migration can be a huge project, so you should create a detailed road
map of the process to ensure that everything moves over correctly and safely. If you do not
properly plan before hand, you could end up with important applications on the cloud that
cannot fully interact, limiting the efficiently of cloud computing.
Optimize and Standardize
Before beginning anything, you should assess and analyze your network to optimize the
cloud implementation, especially its infrastructure. You should consider the applications
component, network stack, management, security and orchestration before moving anything
so that it will be ideally optimized and run efficiently. Once you have optimized the
applications and data for the transition to the cloud, it is time to standardize everything. The
front-end standardization must match the back end of the infrastructure so that all
operational processes will run smoothly. Once you have mapped out everything for
optimization and standardization, then you will be ready for the actual transition.
Through spending some time to plan the move, IT managers can create an environment
ready for the cloud. Before moving anything, always back up your server, including all data
and applications, in case there is a problem during the transition. Communication is key in
the process, including within the IT department, with the management of the company, and
with the rest of the employees. You should never dismiss the human element's role in the
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