Pat Wright details how to plan cloud migration with minimal downtime. Learn key cutover strategies, testing methods, and critical questions to avoid data loss and system failure.
Whenever I start a migration, one of the primary questions is: “how much downtime will be supported during the migration?” The answer is always none. That doesn’t usually work in most systems. Typically, the applications you are trying to move to the cloud are not necessarily modern systems, and they are not ready to handle distributed processing.
The goal in this step should be to begin discussing what it will take to