The journey to the cloud isn’t just about migration—it’s about transformation. Before you move workloads off-premises, optimizing your existing infrastructure can deliver immediate performance gains, reduce costs, and make your eventual cloud transition smoother and faster. In this session, we’ll explore a practical, step-by-step approach to assessing your current environment, identifying optimization opportunities, and building a migration plan that avoids costly pitfalls. You’ll learn how to balance the realities of legacy systems with the flexibility of modern cloud platforms, ensuring your move isn’t just a lift-and-shift, but a real leap forward.

Key takeaways:

Techniques for auditing and optimizing on-prem infrastructure before migration

Strategies to reduce technical debt and complexity ahead of the move

Choosing the right migration model: lift-and-shift, re-platform, or re-architect

How to plan for performance, security, and cost management in the cloud