Guide To Lift And Shift Data Center Migration
Search Data Center, Thursday, October 26,2023
The lift-and-shift approach moves an app and its data from one environment to another. Understanding what's involved can help a data center admin decide on a migration approach.
Lift and shift involves moving an application and its associated data, OS and workload to a new environment. It provides a way to move apps to the cloud without redesigning the app to suit the new infrastructure or fundamentally changing the workload.
Data center admins use lift and shift to migrate apps and workloads from on premises to a data center or from the data center to the cloud. Companies use lift and shift to protect their investments in applications, business workflows and data found in their hardware. However, this approach is not always helpful to an organization.