According to Gartner, by 2025, 85% of businesses will adopt a “cloud-first”, trong đó 95% khối lượng công việc số sẽ được triển khai trên nền tảng đám mây. Ngày nay, việc chuyển đổi lên đám mây (Cloud Migration) đang trở thành xu hướng, giúp doanh nghiệp tối ưu hóa quy trình vận hành, tạo ra cơ hội cạnh tranh mạnh mẽ trong thị trường số hóa. Nhưng liệu bạn đã hiểu đúng và đủ về Cloud Migration để có thể tận dụng hết sức mạnh của công nghệ này trong doanh nghiệp?
1. Moving to the cloud – common misconceptions about the benefits
When people discuss the benefits of cloud migration, businesses usually turn first to cost, in its various dimensions: cost savings, cost transparency, shorter capital cycles and better cash flow. In reality only 8% of CEOs worldwide name cost savings as their leading criterion — it ranks sixth among more than ten different benefit criteria.
IT modernization comes next at 17%, followed by improving efficiency, strengthening information security, raising productivity and accelerating innovation. Companies always want to optimize cost when moving to cloud, but in practice many end up with rather more than that — most visibly, the opportunity to modernize their IT systems and applications.
2. Cloud migration – more than simply renting a service
Cloud is not simply a hosting story, and cloud migration is not simply renting instead of buying — it is also a story about the sharing economy and economies of scale. Cloud migration helps organizations standardize their technology, adopt newer technology and get products to market faster. It is also a way to raise productivity, build applications, modernize architecture and change how production and operations work. Beyond that, it helps organizations adopt innovations more quickly, optimize cost and system load, extend reach and improve customer experience.
Cùng một phương diện kinh doanh, các doanh nghiệp tận dụng được hệ sinh thái các dịch vụ đa dạng trên Cloud sẽ có lợi thế ngắn và trung hạn. Ngay cả các doanh nghiệp đầu tư trước dưới “mặt đất”, sẽ gặp khó khăn khi gặp những đối thủ mới nổi tận dụng nền tảng mới lên Cloud và tận dụng sẵn có các dịch vụ PaaS, hệ sinh thái AI, GPU, IoT Platform, Machine Learning, Data Platform, v.v… cho các phát kiến mới, những công nghệ rất khó hoặc gần như không thể có ngay dưới mặt đất.
In the longer term, however, moving to cloud has to mean changing how applications are produced and developed. Applications built on the old development cycle — discontinuous, one-off, then operated unchanged — no longer fit. What is needed instead is DevSecOps as a flexible, continuous, effectively endless cycle in the cloud, running from development through testing, deployment and monitoring to operations. Migrating to cloud is therefore an opportunity to modernize systems and, at the same time, to raise the capability of the organization's people, opening up new experience for cloud specialists.
3. An effective cloud migration strategy for business
Cloud migration strategy is usually described as the 5R or 6R model — rehost, refactor, rearchitect, rebuild and replace. Rehost is lift and shift: a one-to-one move to cloud. Refactor means adjusting selected components so you can start using cloud-native services. Rearchitect goes further, reshaping the architecture to proper cloud standards. Rebuild means redeveloping the application to cloud standards. Finally, replace means adopting software as a service (SaaS) on cloud outright.
Worldwide, cloud adoption has become relatively even across industries. In Vietnam, by contrast, adoption varies considerably between companies within the same industry — each Vietnamese company sits at a different point on the hype cycle. To apply a cloud strategy effectively, companies need to invest intelligently: building near-term competitiveness while keeping enough perspective to take a strong position as the cycle moves into the slope of enlightenment and the plateau of productivity.
Businesses need a properly prepared cloud migration strategy, covering three areas. First, work out where you currently sit on the cloud maturity map. Second, re-architect systems and applications to cloud platform standards, so that even before anything moves to cloud, investment is heading in the right direction and money is not being put into things that cannot be migrated. Third, decide which of the R strategies is right for each class of application.
Moving to cloud is no longer a passing trend but a turning point in how a business develops. Thorough preparation and the right strategy let an organization take full advantage of cloud, open new opportunities and move confidently into a digital future. In Vietnam, much of the cloud migration journey still lies ahead — and it starts with the roadmap for a cloud migration strategy, which needs to be in place today.
