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Cloud Migration Tips & Gotchas

For Reference Only

SaaS IaaS

 SLAs  SLAs for availability and performance of the server, network
 Data Portability and storage infrastructure, plus info on maintenance and
 Long-term Costs management procedures and how downtime is handled
 User Management
 Security  Data Portability – how to replicate or migrate other data also
 Scalability used in the cloud, e.g. file storage that is used by a database
server

 Long-term Costs – For always-on applications, the long-term
cost of ownership may be higher in the public cloud than the
private cloud

 User Management - How to handle multiple user roles, e.g.
server admin, application admin or application user

 Security – Transparency in the provider’s security policies
around virtual and physical servers as well as compliance

 Scalability – How will provider handle scaling resources up
and down and contention be dealt with