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DAVE BARTOLETTI: Hi.
I'm Dave Bartoletti, vice president and principal analyst
at Forrester.
I'd like to share some key findings from a recent thought
leadership study we developed called "The State of Cloud
Migration in 2020," or "How to Get your Cloud Migrations
Right the First Time," which was sponsored by Google Cloud.
We took an in-depth look at cloud migration
by asking 400 infrastructure and operations professionals
across North America and Europe to tell us how they've
benefited from cloud migration.
In 2020, firms are migrating all types of applications
and workloads to the cloud.
Whether it's software development platforms, employee
experience, or digital experience platforms,
everything is fair game to move to the cloud.
Software development platforms are
especially attractive to migrate because they fully
abstract infrastructure management away
from development teams.
Software developers want infrastructure
for development, testing, and deployment that's available
when they need it, scales up and down easily on demand,
and goes away when it's not needed anymore.
But what are companies who are migrating to cloud
looking for in a cloud vendor?
Our study shows that firms are making cloud decisions today
based on business value, rather than budget.
They're more concerned about what
they have to gain than what they'll end up spending.
The benefits must clearly outweigh the costs.
When considering cloud vendors, firms also
look for the best security, the best technical capabilities,
and the best ease of use or time to value.
By focusing on these capabilities,
firms can shift their energy away
from infrastructure management and infrastructure maintenance
and instead focus on innovation and growth.
Our data also proves that companies have indeed
realized big post-migration gains across the board.
From better IT operations to stronger application
performance to better security and to also faster software
development cycles.
And faster software development is
critical because learning how to use the cloud
to build and deliver software faster
accelerates overall business transformation.
It gets new products and services to market faster
and has a direct impact on revenue generation.
So what does your firm need to do
to ensure that your cloud migration succeeds
and that your company can start realizing
these speed, efficiency, and revenue benefits that
come from moving workloads and applications to public cloud?
We found that winning companies take four steps
to make sure cloud migration is a success.
First, hire or partner with the most experienced cloud experts
you can find.
Second, invest in monitoring tools
that you're going to need to increase performance
visibility.
Make sure you can measure where your migration is paying off.
Also, make sure you spend the time to analyze your portfolio
to identify the best fit workloads to run
in public cloud.
And finally, increase your collaboration
with your business and application owners.
Make sure you involve your key application
stakeholders early on and include them
on your migration team.
We've found that cloud migration is happening everywhere,
but companies are far from finished.
In fact, 63% of firms plan to migrate more workloads
to public cloud in just the next 12 months.
How can you speed up cloud migration at your company?
First, reach out to your trusted cloud platform vendors
and ask them to help you with strategy and planning.
Make sure you explore a broad range of benefits
for your business case.
How will this migration help us be a more effective IT
organization?
How will migration set us up to be more agile as a company
overall in the future?
Don't just focus on reducing your IT budget.
Thanks for watching.
And to learn more, please read our Forrester Consulting Study
commissioned by Google Cloud.