For teams using Atlassian tools, transitioning to the cloud is becoming a priority as Atlassian will discontinue server licenses by 2024. Additionally, Gartner analysts predict more than 85% of organizations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 to reap the benefits from operating on the cloud — from cost-effectiveness to organizational efficiency.
That is why a large-scale cloud migration was essential for one luxury department store chain. While the company had adopted an organization-wide cloud-first initiative, by migrating its 2,000 Jira users to cloud, the company would absolve the negative experiences the team experienced and begin benefiting from the advantages of being on the cloud.
The project manager within the company’s infrastructure and security team and lead Atlassian suite SME explained:
“Our server environment was suffering growing pains, which included environment instability that resulted in crashes and outages, with the amount of users that we have. Many people were very excited for clouds to have much better uptime and reliability. Additionally, people were looking forward to the functionality that's only available in the cloud, including Jira Roadmaps.”
The team enlisted Contegix for help with the migration process, as Contegix had been hosting the company’s server environment for many years. “Because Contegix is an Atlassian platinum partner, they have a lot of experience with conducting migrations, and they already had access to our environments, it was a no-brainer to have them support the migration,” said the project manager.