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There are several critical parameters that you should consider before choosing cloud service providers. Is it possible to self-regulate virtual infrastructure parameters? What is the quality of the provider’s hardware? Do the failover parameters of data centers allow infrastructure maintenance without stopping the service? Is the provider liable for the violation of the SLA parameters, as well as what security options do they provide?

Thorough inventory of your infrastructure, including physical network and IT hardware, software, and services is critical. Often, this facilitates migration and allows you to optimize the IT infrastructure, put it in order, redistribute processes and workloads. Without this, it will be challenging to make successful “moves”.

Many modern business applications are initially designed to work in the cloud. But everything is not that easy with legacy software. Such systems may need to be re-engineered. It is necessary to draw up a detailed list of services you need to transfer to a cloud, the information systems associated with them, and the computing, network and storage resources required. In short, you need an accurate list of everything that needs to move to the cloud.

A separate issue is network interaction between the client’s IT infrastructure and the provider’s cloud platform. You should take into account routing, addressing, bandwidth and reliability of communication channels, as well as information security (for example, the need for a VPN), horizontal (increase in the number of virtual machines) and vertical (increase in the capacity of a particular virtual machine) cloud scalability.