Cloud migration playbook falls short for critical workloads

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Enterprises have found that standard cloud migration models are insufficient when moving mission-critical workloads and require a specialised approach, according to findings by enterprise-class cloud company Virtustream as part of a study commissioned by Forrester Consulting. The study, “Cloud Migration: Critical Drivers for Success”, provides new insights into key obstacles organisations face when migrating enterprise-level applications and systems to the cloud.

Cloud migration is distinctly harder than cloud adoption, says the study. “Megacloud environments are not built optimally for all applications. New apps can be designed to run on these horizontally scaling environments in micro service-based architectures, but existing workloads have