cloud migration
ready, set, go
Colin Pittham, VP of EMEA at ExtraHop, discusses the importance of cloud
migration readiness and why organisations should not fear the move.
M
ultiple surveys over
the last few years
have shown that
organisations are
moving from private
data centres into the cloud at
a rapid pace. Off-premise data
centres and hybrid solutions have
become increasingly compelling
options that potentially offer
increased efficiency, resiliency and
agility, but also a means to reduce
associated costs.
Data centre migration in the
world of cloud-hosting and hybrid
infrastructure can be daunting.
Organisations are often afraid to take
the leap to data centre migration,
and rightly so. A poorly executed
migration could have disastrous
consequences, including loss of
internal access to data, disruption
to daily operations, loss of carefully
accumulated data, customer
confidence and brand damage.
With so many dependencies
and potential complications,
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