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What To Prevent In Migrating To Cloud? 

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migrating to cloudWhat To Prevent In Migrating To Cloud? 

In expanding business systems, enterprise often look for the best asset for integration. Technology such as Cloud Service Provider can be an option for business integration systems. Not only because it’s affordable, but it also can be allocated and changed in minutes. Even enterprises technology elites are spending dollars on the Public Cloud these days. Thus, it can be a good idea for a business long-term investment.

However, implementing cloud infrastructure can’t be defined as a solution to fix existing problems, such as data mess, application issues, inadequate security, or frequent outages due to a lack of operational disciplines and tools. Once business migrates these issues, it will end up with less-than-optimal systems in the cloud. Moreover, it can get worse if the IT department still be on the learning curve of using the Public Cloud. So, it will be increasing risk and cost without improving any of its systems.

Therefore, business needs to know what mistakes in migrating to the cloud. No worries, below here we have compiled three things that needed to avoid in cloud migration. Read them below here:

1. Migrating all business data to the cloud

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In developing a business, having multiple sources is important for storing enterprise data. But if you don’t look at this side, then you just make a big mistake for business continuity.

Having a massive number of redundant databases and no one knows where all the data is, can be fatal for the business. Moreover, if the business decided to migrate all data – including the complex one – to the cloud, it will not improve everything except for causing a new problem. Therefore, consider and segmented what to store and integrated into the cloud is important to do. Thus, business investment in cloud infrastructure can be effective and beneficial.

2. Forget to secure the data

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Migrating certain data to cloud infrastructure must include proper security practices from the organization. Even, a change is needed once the data move. But, if your organization does no comply with this practice, then you just caused a new problem for cloud migration.

As migrating encrypted data to the cloud, the organization certainly thinks if the assets are normally well-locked down. Little did they know, it is easy to inadvertently create vulnerabilities in the cloud since customers are responsible for setting many security controls around their apps and data. That’s why securing the data by encrypting them is important for the organization before it is being moved to the cloud.

3.  Assuming that all cloud environments are the same

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Once business decided to migrate their system to cloud, they can’t assume that all cloud environments are the same. Every cloud provider designs their cloud differently, specializing in different functions and capabilities for their deployment.

That’s why in migrating to cloud, business should never blindly do it from one cloud to another before becoming familiar with its new environment. Otherwise, the migration process will be a problem while organization needs to struggle to reconfigure data to fit the new environment.

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5 Workloads That Potential for Cloud Adoption

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Since pandemic COVID-19 spread a year ago, business industry from all over the world had to decide to implement a remote working system for their company. Some of them might succeed to adapt to its working system, but for some, it might be a challenge for their workloads. Therefore, technology like cloud adoption is needed to support companies’ work-from-home requirements. With its agility and flexibility, the cloud can maintain business continuity and build business resilience while working from home.

However, adopting cloud only to store and manage data is not enough to maintain business during COVID-19. Besides of data, some workloads are also needed to support enterprises in work collaboration and communications. Therefore, enterprises should consider cloud adoption to deploy them, so businesses can achieve the best remote working system during this pandemic. Then, what are the workloads that should be moved to the cloud?

A Vice President (VP) Analyst at Gartner, Ed Anderson, has listed five workloads that might be potential for cloud adoption.  Read them below to gain insights in maintain business during remote working:

1. Collaboration Tools

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During pandemic, the demand for collaboration tools is increased for remote workers. With easy access and various features to enable remote teams to communicate and working on the same project together, those tools have offered the company productivity while working remotely. Therefore, this solution might be potential for cloud adoption.

Microsoft Office 365, iWork, and Google G Suite are three examples of cloud-based collaboration. The broad and horizontal applicability of these applications has proved of how well-suited cloud-based collaboration is for cloud delivery. Not only that, but the advancement of cloud-based collaborations also enabled more access for business while working remotely. That’s why enterprises should consider this option for the best collaborative tools.

2. Video Conference

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During pandemic, video conferencing has become the major communication tool for organizations. With the simple features, easy, and fast access, people now are using video conference not only to communicate with friends and family, but business is also included in it.

That’s why, as the remote workers increased, the demand for video conferencing doubled or even tripled in some markets. With the massive number of its usage even for business needs, of course, it will cause the immense demand for networking bandwidth. Hyperscale cloud providers can be a solution to deliver this solution. With its flexibility and high scalability, video conferencing can be potential for cloud adoption.

3. Virtual Desktop 

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According to doubleoctopus.com, Virtual Desktop is an operating system and accompanying applications that are hosted on a server and made accessible to an endpoint. It is typically accessed through client software installed directly on an endpoint, and it can be used to enable the user to interact with each other. Therefore, this technology becomes one of the important tools for remote workers while working from home.

With the rising demand of its usage, cloud adoption can be a solution to deploy Virtual Desktops. While often delivered as a data center service, cloud-based desktop virtualization has become mainstream and provides stable and scalable control points than traditional data-center-based solutions.

4. Scale-out applications

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According to technopedia.com, scaling-out is the IT strategies that increase the processing power and storage capacity of systems. So, if the applications need to be scaled-out, it means the applications could get benefit from adding additional resources to satisfy increases in demand.

Hyperscale cloud adoption can be a good choice to deploy scale-out applications. With the easy transition for enterprises to migrate their applications to the cloud, companies can grow their cloud at their own pace and hosting applications with variable usage or scale-out requirements.

5. Disaster Recovery  

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According to Gartner, 50% of organizations will increase their budget for cloud-based Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions by 2023. It can be predicted, as DR offers the cost-effectiveness of using a pay-per-use environment to support unexpected failover. That’s why, if your company needs a solution that can prevent the risk of downtime and can maintain business continuity at the same time, a cloud adoption for Disaster Recovery might be the best choice for your business. 

At Zettagrid we offer Disaster Recovery as a Service like secondsiteDR to support businesses in achieving their business continuity. With the High Availability and RTO below 15 minutes, Disaster Recovery can help the business to reduce downtime caused by disaster or even human errors. 

If you have any further questions about our solution, you can contact us here or through sales@zettagrid.id.