INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
AWS CEO Andy Jassy showed signs of frustration at his AWS re:Invent keynote address in December.
Customers weren''t moving to the cloud
nearly fast enough for his taste, and he prodded them to move along
Some of their hesitation, as Jassy pointed out, was due to institutional inertia, but some of it also was due to a technology problem
related to getting entrenched, on-prem workloads to the cloud.
When a challenge of this magnitude presents itself and you have the head of
the world largest cloud infrastructure vendor imploring customers to move faster, you can be sure any number of players will start paying
attention.
Sure enough, cloud infrastructure vendors (ISVs) have developed new migration solutions to help break that big data logjam
Large ISVs like Accenture and Deloitte are also happy to help your company deal with migration issues, but this opportunity also offers a
big opening for startups aiming to solve the hard problems associated with moving certain workloads to the cloud.
Think about problems like
getting data off of a mainframe and into the cloud or moving an on-prem data warehouse
We spoke to a number of experts to figure out where this migration market is going and if the future looks bright for cloud-migration
startups.
AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud
Cloud-migration blues
It hard to nail down exactly the percentage
of workloads that have been moved to the cloud at this point, but most experts agree there still a great deal of growth ahead
Some of the more optimistic projections have pegged it at around 20%, with the United States far ahead of the rest of the world.
