From Legacy Infrastructure to the Cloud: A Migration Journey in 5 Steps

More organizations than ever are moving valuable content from legacy infrastructure to the cloud to improve agility and collaboration. However, migrating content and evolving with changes in responsibilities that often follow may sound daunting. Having a solid plan ensures that cloud migration provides a smart strategy for teamwork, streamlined enterprise applications, and managing security and risk.

THE LIMITATIONS OF LEGACY

The limitations of legacy infrastructure — such as network shares, enterprise content management systems, paper, general-purpose file servers, and others — have become apparent. Content stored and managed on network shares and other legacy infrastructure is effectively locked into that environment. This makes engaging and collaborating extremely difficult for internal teams without access to a specific content silo — and for outside partners, such as customers, partners, suppliers, auditors, and contingent workers. On top of it all, the number of enterprise applications that employees use to get work done has proliferated exponentially.

The way users interact with content is evolving away from inefficient, costly, and complex systems. In today’s business environment of distributed workforces, virtual teams, line of business applications, and device proliferation, companies need a new way to work that protects them against both malicious and inadvertent security risks, from hacks to leaked content.

The limitations of legacy infrastructure are particularly challenging, because they result in poor content management, higher overhead costs, and decreased workplace productivity and security.