Even with the tremendous power of the Amazon Web Service (\u201cAWS\u201d) cloud at your disposal, there are no guarantees that your plan is going to work. The best insurance that you have to safeguard your online strategy is to make sure that the right people are hosting, managing, and implementing the assets and applications that you have developed for your business.<\/p>\n
Starting With Strategy<\/h1>\n
One of the real dangers of launching with an incomplete AWS strategy is that the focus tends to stray away from your essential products and services, and into solving cloud problems. Time and again, it\u2019s proven to be more effective for small and medium companies to migrate using an AWS-native team of SysAdmins and Cloud Architects who understand your pathway to online growth and know how to lay the right foundations to get there. That, in turn, frees you up to do the work you were trying to bring to market in the first place.<\/p>\n
Too often, we see one member of the IT team assigned the role of being the \u2018new cloud guy\u2019 in addition to his or her other duties, with the wildly unrealistic expectation that they are going to move the strategic assets of the company into the cloud.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen there\u2019s so much at stake for an organization, migration experience is an invaluable asset,<\/em>\u201d said Mark Kirstein<\/a>, BitTitan\u2019s vice president of products. \u201cAn experienced team will understand the environment and its constraints, and they\u2019ll adeptly manage the entire process from start to finish.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s unfair on the employee, and almost a guarantee that the cloud will not bring you the savings and efficiency that you desire. cloud migration needs collaboration, expertise, and a vision of where you want to go, not just in 6 months but in 6 years as well.<\/p>\n \u2018One approach I\u2019ve seen companies use to make these determinations is through the creation of a cloud center of excellence team, or cloud \u201cninja team\u201d explains Stephen Orban<\/a>, author and former head of Enterprise Strategy at AWS in a blog post called \u2018How to Create a Cloud Center of Excellence in Your Enterprise. \u201cWhat is it?\u201d he says. \u201cA group that is focused on the strategy, reference architectures, governance, frameworks and management around cloud that is driving towards answering some key questions on an ongoing basis.\u2019<\/p>\n Media Temple has identified four distinct areas of the cloud migration process where companies benefit from working very closely with trained professionals who can manage the journey.<\/p>\n In order for you hit those landmarks on-schedule and to keep the momentum moving forward, you should ensure you have the resources in place that offer the following services, and that can scale quickly:<\/p>\n These are a few of the features that Media Temple offers to its clients and the results speak for themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our projects regularly move from start to production in only two weeks.<\/p>\nThe Four Landmarks on The Journey to Cloud<\/h3>\n
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