A cloud migration roadmap for CIOs

Of course, building a detailed cloud migration roadmap of system-The most important of the remaining concerns is in what order to migrate the systems. This is governed Assessments of risk should be made in a structured and consistent way involving not just IT, but also the lines of business as well as security and risk management teams.

Most of the remaining work of building and maintaining a cloud migration roadmap depends on building mechanisms such as the following:

• special change management request types for the migrations;
• a system dependency map and a data affinity map to help sequence and group migrations;
• a workload placement process for deciding where workloads will go;
• a migration dashboard for C-level leadership; and
• system-CIOs will have no end of encouragement to migrate to the cloud, but doing it successfully depends on doing it properly, and therefore, a roadmap is indispensable.