IDC PeerScape: Post-Cloud Migration Peer Insights to Better Measure Performance

IDC PeerScape Figure

• Figure: IDC PeerScape: Post-Cloud Migration — Practices to Better Measure Performance

Executive Summary

Peer Insights

• Practice 1: Use Uptime Tools to Ensure Cloud Providers Meet Expected Availability Rates, Ideally Four- or Five-Nines

• Challenge

• Examples

• City Colleges of Chicago

• University of California at San Diego

• Akron Children's Hospital

• Guidance

• Practice 2: Ensure That Cloud Service Providers Account for Planned Downtime in Their Total Reliability Metric

• Challenge

• Examples

• City Colleges of Chicago

• University of California at San Diego

• Akron Children's Hospital

• Guidance

• Practice 3: Ensure That the Right Workloads Are Targeted for the Cloud and Prune Duplicate On-Prem Data and Apps

• Challenge

• Examples

• City Colleges of Chicago

• University of California at San Diego

• Akron Children's Hospital

• Guidance

• Practice 4: Insist Providers Have Adequate Security Measures and Provide a Full Second Layer of Data Defense

• Challenge

• Examples

• City Colleges of Chicago

• University of California at San Diego

• Akron Children's Hospital

• Guidance