Cloud migration assessment software evaluates a business’s existing IT infrastructure and produces analysis on the cost benefit, security, and risk factors associated with migrating to the cloud. Cloud migration assessment solutions help companies discover, map, and evaluate their cloud migration strategies. Businesses leverage these tools to assess their cloud migration feasibility, readiness, plan, and estimation. These tools generate cloud migration readiness reports which allow users to visualize their assessment scores in the form of heatmaps, graphs, radar charts, and more.
A cloud migration assessment tool is implemented as the initial step of the cloud migration process. Cloud migration assessment software enables companies to understand the challenges involved in cloud migration, build a strategic cloud migration roadmap to achieve cost-effective cloud adoption, and make decisions on the best-fit cloud migration software or cloud migration service.
To qualify for inclusion in the Cloud Migration Assessment category, a product must:
Evaluate existing physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure
Create a strategic cloud migration roadmap report
Calculate and compare the ROI and TCO of moving to the cloud
Adhere to compliance and regulatory standards