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Moving to the cloud is more complex than it seems. While businesses consider moving to the cloud because of its advantages, it is advantageous to be aware of the main risks. Understanding the typical mistakes and errors is essential for avoiding problems while migrating to the cloud.

This article discusses five common mistakes that businesses make during cloud migration. Knowing these things will help you to prepare in advance when moving your business data to the cloud.

1. Lack of Migration Strategy

The most common mistake businesses make is not having a well-thought-out migration strategy. Companies can avoid going over budget and experiencing project failure if they have a solid data migration plan.

For example, you want to migrate from Dropbox to Google Workspace. Then assess your Dropbox data initially and create a clear migration strategy that outlines the specific tasks required for a successful migration.

2. Missing Migrating Important Features

Moving data without losing its features is difficult for businesses. Therefore, you must make sure you migrate all the features without any mistakes when moving from one cloud to another.

To perform tasks and projects, team members communicate using a variety of Slack features, such as emojis, timestamps, @mentions, videos, replies, etc. Therefore, when migrating from Slack to Teams, ensure that these features have been moved and that users can still access their conversations in Teams.

  1. Migrating all data at once

You should always migrate data to the cloud in phases because it can take months or even years to accomplish. Create an estimated timeline based on how much data and what data you need to migrate in one phase and execute the migration.

Therefore, give business-sensitive data top priority and migrate it first. Additionally, you should constantly test the migrated data to ensure that your migration runs as planned.

3. Assuming All Clouds are the Same

You might think that since each cloud environment is fundamentally the same, moving to a different cloud won’t be a critical challenge. But note that each cloud service has a unique design, focusing on various features and functionalities.

As a result, you should always familiarize yourself with your new cloud environment before transferring data between clouds. Otherwise, your organization will struggle to reorganize data to fit the new cloud, resulting in an inefficient migration.

4. Forgetting about Security

Remember that the security of your data during migration is your responsibility. You cannot just assume that the cloud migration tool using which you are performing migration will secure your data. You are also responsible for security, even though cloud providers integrate numerous services and policies to secure the data during migration.