“But why are we moving to the cloud?”

**A cloud migration is a big decision – and making it a success will rest at least in part on aligning your organization’s motivations**

“Why are we moving to the cloud?” is a common question for organizations going through digital transformation. And it’s one that everyone should have the same answer to if you want the project to succeed.

Your motivations will ultimately shape the way your transformation strategy progresses – and the conversations you’ll need to have to make it a reality. They’re likely shaped by three priorities which will radically shape the way your strategy develops:

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Responding to critical events

Strategies motivated by critical events – from a need to replace legacy systems or to meet changing regulatory requirements – can help businesses improve their agility and resilience, but only when they aren’t applied reactively and without attention to the long-term.

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Migration as top priority

Strategies with migration as a primary motivator can help organizations to successfully create business outcomes that achieve everything from a reduction in vendor and technical complexity to an improved ability to scale and increased business agility.

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Innovation as top priority

Innovation-driven transformation requires greater upfront investment strategy and planning early in the process to ensure your resources and migration are aligned to your innovation agenda. But it does keep IT goals aligned to organization goals, and can drive huge improvements in business agility and customer experience and engagement.

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_{The value of business innovation}

When considering any new innovation, including cloud migration, we need to identify how that innovative solution will drive business value.

Business value is the estimated health of an organization including financial employee, customer, supplier, partner, and societal value.

A good way to assess business value is to set up two separate teams to discuss questions around the following issues and test the organization’s internal alignment by comparing the results from the two discussions.

What customer needs are addressed with this solution?
What business opportunities will this solution create?
What business outcomes will be achieved with this solution?
What organizational motivations are served with this solution?

If the answers from the two teams are aligned, then you can confidently move to solution development. If a few are aligned but a few are not, or none are aligned, you will need to review a few elements before developing your new solution.

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_{Moving to the cloud: the technical considerations}

Moving to the cloud comes with its own set of technical considerations. Making the right choices will help optimize your workloads and give your people a better experience of their new solution.

Technical benefits

⚙︎	Scalability: one of the biggest advantages of the cloud, scaling your resource to match usership needs comes with the added benefit of improving sustainability.
⚙︎	Capacity optimization: ensures you only pay for the resources you need.
⚙︎	Sustainability: the most forward-looking cloud providers already incorporate sustainability goals into the way they design infrastructure and data centers.
⚙︎	Availability: highly available infrastructure that isn’t practical on-prem is readily affordable in the cloud.
⚙︎	Security and compliance: major providers invest considerable resources into security to protect your investments.

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