Cloud Migration Strategy

Learn to analyse feasibility of Cloud Migration for an organisation

Last updated 12/2019

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What you'll learn

This course is about learning how to decide whether an organisation should move to Cloud Computing or not. By taking this course, a learner will be able to strategically consider all the factors to determine feasibility and suitability to migrate to the Cloud. This course is not only for the IT professionals. This is not a technical course – it is about analyzing organisational factors using a strategic framework, to decide to move to the Cloud.

4 sections • 11 lectures • 1h 12m total length

Why Take This Course?5:11
Explore why organizations should consider cloud migration, using a strategic framework and case studies to assess feasibility and suitability before deciding to move to the cloud.
What is Cloud Migration?8:47
Cloud migration is a strategic decision to move IT resources to a cloud service provider, partial or full, guided by a cloud migration strategy and careful planning.
What is Cloud Migration?

Why Cloud Migration?5:57
Why Cloud Migration?
Should I Migrate to the Cloud?4:17
Cloud Migration: Security Issues14:48
Explore cloud security and its issues, balancing human and technological factors while noting trust, compliance, service level agreements (sla), social engineering, and virtualization as key risk areas.
Cloud Migration: Security Issues
Cloud Migration: Privacy Issues6:45
Cloud Migration: Privacy Issues
Technical Approaches to Cloud Migration8:15
The lecture outlines four cloud migration approaches—re-adjusting (lift and shift), platforming, repurchasing, and refactoring or re-architecting—and emphasizes tradeoffs and the need for a feasibility study before migration.
Technical Approaches to Cloud Migration
Cloud Migration Factors3:01
Cloud Migration Factors
A Strategic Framework for Cloud Migration5:11
A Strategic Framework for Cloud Migration

There is no specific pre-requisite for this course. Anyone can take this course. However, it would be advantageous to have some introductory knowledge on Cloud Computing including Cloud service deployment model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).

Overall Course Objective:

Learn the strategic approach required for an organisation to decide on migrating to Cloud Computing from in-premise IT infrastructure.

Learning Outcome:

1. Understand what is Cloud migration.

2. Understand the importance of decision making on Cloud migration.

3. Learn various organisational factors and concerns to consider for deciding on Cloud migration.

4. Understand different technical approaches to migrate to Cloud Computing.

5. Use a strategic framework for structured decision-making on Cloud migration.

Anyone who wants to learn about the factors involved in Cloud migration strategy. This course may be particularly beneficial for those who are at the decision-making level (i.e. management). This course could be beneficial for IT managers and IS/IT analysts.