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Cloud Migration

Migrate applications to the cloud without losing performance and end user experience visibility

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Cloud migration is anything but smooth sailing

Faced with increasing demands, businesses are looking for ways to scale their infrastructure to deliver on exceptional end user experience, but scaling traditional, on-prem, IT infrastructures is costly. Enter the cloud.

But, whether ‘lift and shift’ or deep cloud integration, the promise of the cloud has come with its challenges.

The shift away from purely on-premise IT infrastructure, where performance can be easily monitored, to a cloud infrastructure leads to blindspots and visibility gaps for application and network performance. These gaps begins the moment migration to the cloud begins as monitoring tools that could see server-to-server traffic on-premises simply don’t work in the cloud. Successful cloud migrations begin with in-depth planning to baseline performance and require ongoing evaluation through the migration: organizations must gain back control and demand high definition visibility at all stages of your migration to the cloud.

57%

of cloud migrations to AWS and 43% of migrations to Azure stalled or failed, according to a survey of 400 IT professionals

47% of IT professionals say that they have less control over application estate as it moves into the cloud

Ensuring excellent results of your cloud migration requires continuous performance monitoring before, during, and after the migration process. To achieve that goal, a performance solution must provide the same level of performance visibility in the cloud as it does in the data center.

Skylight provides complete end-to-end performance visibility for all applications migrated to the cloud. It satisfies these requirements by providing powerful analytics that provide in-depth insight for performance issues and a lightweight SaaS deployment model designed specifically for the cloud.

Cloud migrations fail because of a lack of performance visibility

In fact, according to Vision Solutions, 51% of migrations fail. Migrating to the cloud can affect the business-critical relationship with end users if IT ops cannot see what the end user is experiencing. Worse, Forrester says 31% of performance issues take more than a month to resolve or are never resolved at all because IT ops cannot identify the source of the problems.

Skylight delivers high definition visibility across applications and the network, from all sources of data, no matter where it lives. It delivers performance metrics within minutes and can monitor application workloads before, during, and after your cloud migration. It also evaluates application behavior for multiple implementation options and monitors performance all the way through ramp up and beyond. 

Skylight ensures that you gain total control and full visibility into the end user experience.

Cloud migration can be costly, but it doesn’t have to be

The migration process is expensive: according to Search Computing, it costs $3,000 per server, of which over 50% of the migration costs are due to labor. In addition, poor planning and design will cause unexpected cloud charges, including bandwidth and hosting costs. But more importantly, degradations to end user experience will invariably lead to churn which has a direct impact on revenue and reputation.

Skylight doesn’t require additional cost-prohibitive hardware appliances. Instead, you benefit from a lightweight SaaS deployment model designed specifically for the cloud. Skylight can identify all applications in use, view the end-to-end application chain, define application performance baselines, and determine network requirements, including overall bandwidth.

Skylight delivers a 7x total cost of ownership improvement.

“Skylight offers more reactivity and shorter resolution times. Our engineers know, at any time, they will have full visibility: history, a baseline of an application’s performance, a helicopter view, and instant access to detailed troubleshooting data.”

Brett Airey, Technical Director, Splitpoint

Migrate your business-critical apps to cloud with confidence

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