Migration used to be seen as a project; now it’s an essential competency.

Migration used to be scheduled around specific events such as platform upgrades, data center moves and one-off events with clear start and end dates. Once complete, migration was expected to be relatively painless in terms of impact to the environment.

Now, those expectations don’t hold.

Organizations are continuously moving workloads to the cloud, consolidating platforms after acquisitions and modernizing outdated systems – each migration being its own distinct task.

What has changed is not simply the frequency with which this happens; what has evolved is expectations surrounding migration projects: processes must be repeatable, environments designed with transition in mind, and teams accustomed to migration becoming part of everyday work instead of special projects that get allocated dedicated teams every few years.

Migration no longer counts as a project; rather, it has become an essential capability of any organization or must be brought in on demand.

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