Watching and listening to the materials(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6us8ka

Watching and listening to the materials(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6us8kaq0g&feature=youtu.be; https://www.thecloudcast.net/2014/09/the-cloudcast-162-building-and-managing.html) Describe how one assesses the use of Cloud architectures, virtualized computing, and SaaS applications.. Answer the question: What are the essential strategies and considerations for successful Cloud migrations? Each week to earn full points on the discussion forums, make sure to include outside sources to support your discussion. (300 words)
After listening to this week’s podcast(https://www.thecloudcast.net/2014/09/the-cloudcast-162-building-and-managing.html), reflect on what you learned, what you found of interest, how it might apply, how it was relevant to your professional development, and what conclusions you reached from the podcast. Document and submit your reflection in a 300 word written summary following APA 7th ed. style guidelines. Your reflection should refer to key points or narratives in the podcast and be concise, well-organized, and with sufficient detail.To successfully reflect on the podcast, be sure to follow these guidelines:
1) demonstrate acquisition of new content/knowledge from listening to the podcast.
2) demonstrate thoughts about or challenges to beliefs, values, and attitudes of self and others you may have heard.
3) demonstrate the application of what you learned to a broader context of personal and professional life.
4) demonstrate examination of the learning process, showing what learning occurred, how learning occurred, and how newly acquired knowledge or learning altered your existing knowledge. 
Reply to the below discussion (100 words each)
1.Assessing Cloud Architectures:
Determine whether the cloud constructiveness provides efficient resource usage by differentiating between relative resource consumption and practical resource consumption (e. g., auto-scaling, pay-as-you-go). The state should weigh the possibilities of expenditure reduction in comparison with the expenses on the on-premise structures.
Determine what aspects point to the ability to accommodate different requirements in terms of architecture. Are they easily expandable in circumstances when the workload increases and contractible under situations when it decreases?
Assess the security measures implemented by the cloud provider and consider compliance standards that the cloud provider must adhere to. Learn what measures are in place in terms of data protection and safeguards at rest and in transit.
What is the current state as measured on the availability, latency, reliability, and up-time of the architecture? Compliance with the performance needs of your applications:
Determine to what extent this architecture is compatible with what you already have in terms of on-premises resources and applications.
Virtualized Computing:
Assess how you are leveraging virtual resources available for your use. Is there any virtual machine that remains unoccupied or not in use that can be combined with others or turned off?
Supervise VM’s from the aspect of CPU utilization, amount of RAM and used storage. This is a question of determining existing constraints such as a system’s bottleneck or limited resource availability.
Discuss the current measures for securing virtual environment and the issues of Virtual Machine isolation as well as controlling the access.
Examine the cost involved in the operation and OS of virtual machines, especially in terms of licensing and workload management.
SaaS Applications:Assess whether the SaaS application has the right functionalities that can suit your business processes.
Evaluate and analyze the security measures as well as data protection standards of the SaaS provider. Make sure they meet your compliance expectations in particular wherever applicable.
The last thing you need to understand is how deeply your SaaS application is going to assimilate with your existing systems and processes.
Determine whether the chosen SaaS application meets expectations about scalability for the future growth in your business.
Think about the risks which are connected with using certain SaaS applications and its providers when using of specific SaaS applications and providers becomes essential for your company.
Pre-Implementation, Key Practices That Determine The Success Of Cloud Migration Processes: Here are some essential strategies and considerations:Clearly Define Objectives: The first step is to determine a vision that can be achieved through the cloud migration process. Whatever your goals for adoption of the cloud technology is, ensure that they are precise before venturing into it. Thus value proposal may be expressed in financial terms (e. g., cost savings, increased agility more flexibility and scalability).
Evaluate Your Existing Infrastructure: Evaluate the existing information technology environment and the applications that can be moved to cloud environment efficiently.
Choose the Right Cloud Service Model: Choose the appropriate model in the cloud service model hierarchy and one that is affordable to your firm.
Develop a Migration Strategy: Develop a clear roadmap before transferring all your workloads to the cloud so that you can know the procedures that are involved.
Security is Paramount: Security should not be overlooked during any of the stages or in executing the migration strategy. The organizations must adopt strong Information Technology security measures and apply sensitive data encryption.
Consider the cloud resources and adopt ongoing measures to maintain optimal use in relation to costs.
Perform a detailed change management analysis to identify risks and concerns to implementing new cloud systems.
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The businesses who are responsible for adopting cloud-based solutions are the ones who are obligated to make certain that these solutions comply with all of the appropriate security standards and regulatory requirements. Laws pertaining to data privacy, regulations that are specialized to a certain industry, and recommendations for best practices in cybersecurity are all examples of these types of regulations. When you want to make sure that sensitive data is protected in a continuous manner, it is probable that you will need to implement stringent access restrictions, encryption protocols, monitoring and logging methods, and other monitoring and logging approaches. 
This is because you want to make sure that the data is safeguarded. In order to achieve successful cloud migration campaigns, it is necessary to make advantage of the expertise and support that cloud service providers have to offer (Pahl et al., 2013). This is yet another crucial approach that must be implemented. When it comes to assisting businesses with the process of migration, cloud providers typically provide their customers with a wide variety of professional services and tools to choose from. In addition to providing solutions for deployment assistance, evaluation, and planning, these services and products also provide services. Engaging with cloud providers is something that organizations should do in order to properly manage the intricacies of cloud migrations and ensure a smooth transition to the new environment. Businesses now have the ability to properly manage cloud migrations as a result of this being achievable.