2 years ago

Category: Microsoft, automation

When migrating complex, business-critical applications from on-premises to the cloud, the safest, most effective approach involves three phases. In phase two, IT can use cloned environments to make software development and testing more efficient while refactoring the application piece by piece to use cloud native services.

And in Phase 3, most of the application exists in cloud native formats, but it maintains a connection back to on-premises. The concepts outlined in this post create a quick and safer path to cloud innovation, while simultaneously reducing the reliance on existing on-prem resources.

This three-phased approach enables organizations to take advantage of cloud benefits like capacity on-demand and matches to many Agile software development best practices.