While migrating to the cloud, you may discover the following:
- Rarely used applications
- Applications consuming an excessive amount of server capacity
- Applications that may not be required due to cloud incompatibility
In such a situation, you may want to retire the existing workload and take a fresh approach, which is more cloud-native.
A retirement strategy can be applied to hosts and applications that are soon going to be decommissioned. This can also be applied to unnecessary and redundant hosts and applications. Depending on your business needs, such applications can be decommissioned on-premises without even migrating to the cloud. Hosts and applications that are commonly suited for retirement include the following:
- On-premise servers and storage for disaster recovery purposes
- Server consolidation to resolve redundancies
- Duplicate resources due to mergers and acquisitions
- Alternative hosts in a typical high-availability setup
- Third-party licensed tools such as workload monitoring...
