Move to the cloud, measured every step.
Acuative helps you plan, execute, and optimize cloud migrations, with progress measured at every stage.
A plan for moving your digital assets.
A cloud migration strategy is an overarching plan outlining the transition of an organization's digital assets — services, databases, IT resources, and applications — from on-premises or co-located infrastructures into a cloud-based environment. It can be partial or comprehensive, and can even involve the shift from one cloud platform to another, often referred to as cloud-to-cloud migration.
This isn't limited to moving data from local data centers to public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure — it can also mean moving from one cloud service to another. Execution typically unfolds in five primary stages:
Assess and Plan
Evaluate the existing IT environment, identify workloads suitable for migration, define business objectives, and establish requirements, risks, and dependencies.
Choose a Migration Strategy
Determine how each workload will move to the cloud. Common approaches include rehost (lift and shift), replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, or retire.
Design and Prepare
Select the cloud architecture and services, configure the environment, establish security and networking, and prepare applications and data for migration.
Migrate and Validate
Move workloads and data to the target environment, then test performance, functionality, security, connectivity, and data integrity.
Optimize and Manage
Monitor the new cloud environment, optimize costs and performance, strengthen security, and continuously improve operations.
What the cloud unlocks.
Support larger workloads
Cloud computing can scale to support larger workloads and more users far more easily than on-premises infrastructure. In traditional IT environments, companies had to purchase and set up physical servers, software licenses, storage, and network equipment to scale up business services.
Lower operational overhead
Cloud providers offer managed services that lower your operational overhead and simplify maintenance tasks such as upgrades. Companies migrating to the cloud can spend significantly less on IT operations — and devote more resources to innovation, developing new products or improving existing ones.
Better end-user experience
Migrating to the cloud can improve performance and end-user experience. Applications and websites hosted in the cloud can easily scale to serve more users or higher throughput, and can run in geographical locations near to end-users to reduce network latency.
Access from anywhere
Users can access cloud services and data from anywhere, whether they are employees or customers. This contributes to digital transformation, enables an improved experience for customers, and provides employees with modern, flexible tools.
Why cloud migration with Acuative.
Plan Better
Accelerate your cloud migration. Acuative helps engineering teams understand existing infrastructure and application architecture to ensure an effective, cost-efficient strategy. Leverage insights to assess which cloud-native technologies — like Kubernetes or serverless functions — best fit your needs. Map dependencies, patterns, and current usage before refactoring applications, and make informed decisions about how to architect microservices and prioritize workload migration.
Migration Performance
Optimize performance throughout the migration process. Minimize performance degradation and ensure optimal performance through each migration cycle with granular before-and-after performance data. Instantly identify the root cause of migration issues to accelerate resolution and minimize business impact — and find security vulnerabilities to remediate them before they become real issues.
Get Insights
Obtain essential insights for better assessment and planning in just minutes. Automatically create a complete, interactive dependency map of application components across the entire stack, identify data repositories and activity, and determine external resources and dependencies.
Maximize Performance
As companies migrate, they leverage microservices, containers, and serverless technologies — increasing flexibility but creating observability challenges. Acuative helps overcome these with powerful causal AI to identify the root cause of issues, an integrated automation engine that discovers microservices and acts when issues arise, and deep integration into DevOps pipelines to increase the speed and quality of software delivery.
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