The challenge with cloud migration
Many businesses that accelerated a move to the cloud during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic are now discovering that haste can in fact make waste.
For example, McKinsey reported that several large banks have had to "hire hundreds of cloud engineers because they did not put the right foundational architecture in place at the beginning."
Moreover, one recent survey found that more than half of IT leaders across the US and UK are experiencing "sticker shock" from higher-than-expected cloud costs.
The reason for such cloud modernisation fallout? Migrating applications and data without first laying the proper groundwork. As a result, businesses are seeing costs and complications arise around basic operations, networking, security, backups, identity management and more.
It’s a lesson for any organization considering cloud migration today: Building a strong foundation now means reduced risk, and less money and time spent on remediating shortcomings later.