10 cloud migration process tips CIOs need to consider

Hardly any application works in isolation; therefore, during the cloud migration process, IT needs to understand how an application that’s slated to move to the cloud interacts with other systems and what it takes to support those interactions. Scott Buchholz, managing director at Deloitte Consulting LLP, who serves as the government and public services CTO and the national emerging technologies research director, said he advises enterprise leaders to study how an application operates to fully understand the associated network traffic and all its interdependencies. “It’s not always obvious what the usage patterns are because they’ve evolved over time, so when you move things, you can end up with unintended consequences,” he said.