This guide is general information and does not replace a scoped technical, security, legal, financial, or compliance assessment.
What to examine
- Hardware refreshes consume budget without improving capability.
- Critical systems depend on aging or unsupported components.
- Business growth requires frequent emergency capacity changes.
- Remote access is slow, fragile, or difficult to secure.
- Recovery procedures are unclear or untested.
- Infrastructure knowledge depends on one or two people.
What to do next
The decision is not simply “cloud or no cloud.” Start by documenting current systems, costs, risks, dependencies, growth plans, and recovery requirements. Then compare retain, modernize, replace, and migrate options workload by workload.
Recommended next step
Run a structured discovery and cloud readiness assessment before selecting target services or committing to a migration schedule.