How to get everyone on-board with a cloud migration project

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For a cloud migration project to be successful, all company teams must be onboard with the move. And because each team has different priorities, getting everyone to agree can be a challenge.

At the AWS re:Invent conference last week, a panel of Amazon Web Services customers discussed their personal cloud migration challenges and cloud's main selling points.

"Traditional developers, unless they've looked at the technology, often don't get it," Crosett said. "IT folks have been much more onboard from the start."

While selling your company on cloud may not be easy, panelists and other event speakers agreed there are five drivers and cloud benefits that appeal to various corners of the business:

1. Scalability and agility.
2. Visibility and governance.
3. Cost.
4. Talent and innovation.
5. Planning ahead.

"The real driver, the business driver, was data center modernization," Crosett said, whose company had outdated IT systems in place.

"Moving to cloud gave us the opportunity to clean up a lot of our practices and processes," Bristol-Myers Squibb's Gopstein added.

Because of the time-sensitive nature of Earth Networks' move to the cloud, Crosett advocates planning a move before you have to move, which gives you the time and understanding needed to move legacy applications to the cloud.

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By Caitlin White