Support for Server products on Atlassian ended in February of 2024 – that means no bug fixes, updates, or technical support for issues now or in the future.
While this seems like pretty dour news, the upside is that it’s never been easier to migrate your workflows to the cloud. With the cloud, you get enhanced security, flexibility, and scalability – so what is stopping business leaders from making the move?
According to research from Foundry, over the past year, 90% of organizations have faced challenges in their cloud adoption journey. The top obstacle has been budget and cost concerns, affecting 48% of companies.
Despite that – the same report found that 63% of IT decision-makers agree that their organization has accelerated its migration to the cloud over the past 12 months.
Why This is the Year to Consider the Cloud
Last year, the number of Tempo customers moving to the cloud surged due to Atlassian’s news. Companies were also motivated by improvements in cloud technology that make the longstanding benefits of moving to the cloud even more appealing:
1. Scalability
Cloud infrastructure is flexible, allowing businesses to scale operations up or down based on growth or seasonality. Project managers and product owners can adjust resources around product launches or deprecations – without needing to invest in infrastructure or sell off old hardware.
For Tempo, because we invested in the cloud and gained the security and compliance that came with it – we began seeing a serious uptick in enterprise-level customers and we could handle that spike in demand thanks to our new systems.
2. Cost Effectiveness
A transition to the cloud can lead to significant savings. Companies only pay for what they use: Farewell outdated hardware, goodbye IT staffing issues – hello predictable IT budgets and realistic capital expenses.
3. Collaboration and Streamlining
For enterprises, cloud-based tools allow teams from anywhere to collaborate in real time. With teams working seamlessly, and procurement simplified, they can run an airtight operation, see real-time data more consistently across departments, and enable better decision making.
4. Business Continuity
Cloud-based businesses can back up data and systems to avoid downtime in any given region. Companies that still rely on on-premise systems have a much harder time keeping the lights on and recovering data if a disaster strikes.
5. Quicker Deployment
Cloud services and applications are perfect for quick deployment. You can deliver new products and services, roll out bug fixes, and respond to the market immediately with cloud-based deployment.
6. Automatic Updates
Cloud providers handle software updates to ensure your team has the latest features and security updates. They also take care of server upkeep so systems keep running smoothly.
How Tempo Did It
In 2016, we made the decision to begin transitioning our own tools and our company to the cloud – but moving to cloud isn’t a sprint. It’s a marathon that requires careful preparation, management, and shouldn’t be done recklessly.
We wanted:
● Faster builds compared to pre-cloud (under 15 minutes)
● Faster cycle time (24 hours or or less)
● Better logging, monitoring, and alerting
● A mono repository for our cloud modules
● Using feature flags to have more control over when and how a change is made available to customers
We broke the process down into three parts. Phase one was prepping the pipeline and merging our product repositories and the sub-module repositories into a single mono repository. That meant forking that into two codebases (Cloud and On Premise), and improving those builds. We didn’t set an expectation of feature parity between on-premise and cloud. Instead we focused on solution parity.
Phase two was making development and production logs available to devs, checking nothing was broken, and getting an on-call team to respond to any issues when to do (inevitably) arise).
The final phase was continuous delivery. This is effectively the step that never ends as we always make incremental changes, test our builds, and deploy more often. Because of the benefits of the cloud, that meant going from monthly to weekly to daily releases.
A More Secure Future
When it comes to cloud transformation – it is more than just trying to improve your builds.
In the realm of enterprise software, trust and security are non-negotiable and an effective migration means making major steps to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of your customers’ data.
That means for companies wanting to move to the cloud, you need to consider things like setting up a robust trust center, adhering to GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 standards, and investing continuously in your security infrastructure to stay ahead of the curve.
We helped almost 1,000 companies with their own cloud migrations because we believed the payoff of cloud was so great – and it only improves as more companies make the move.
Thanks to the investments we made in the cloud, Tempo was awarded Atlassian’s 2023 Partner of the Year for Enterprise Apps. We simply wouldn’t be the same company without becoming cloud-first.
Join our January 21, 2025 webinar, “New Year, New Beginnings: Why 2025 is the Year to Move to Atlassian Cloud.” For more about Tempo, visit www.tempo.io or book a demo.
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