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Dm MANAGEMENT: CLOUD<br />
From the 'cloud rush' to<br />
enlightenment<br />
Adrian Moir, Senior Consultant at Quest Software,<br />
looks at the growing trend for 'cloud repatriation' and<br />
asks whether the cost and time involved are being<br />
given adequate consideration in finding the appropriate<br />
balance<br />
Many organisations have felt the<br />
pressure to move towards the<br />
cloud and it was only four<br />
years ago that Gartner<br />
suggested a "cloudfirst"<br />
strategy was<br />
the foundation<br />
for staying<br />
relevant in<br />
today's world.<br />
There is no<br />
denying the<br />
substantial<br />
benefits<br />
that<br />
cloud<br />
can<br />
deliver, but there is a difference<br />
between taking a considered and<br />
strategic approach, and 'forcing' cloud<br />
migration simply due to fear of being<br />
left behind.<br />
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but<br />
what many organisations didn't predict<br />
was the level of complexity and<br />
additional costs of simply lifting and<br />
shifting everything into these new<br />
environments. So how can businesses<br />
find the right model for their cloudbased<br />
workloads as data continues to<br />
grow?<br />
CLOUD ADOPTION<br />
The last decade has seen an influx of<br />
cloud initiatives, with many businesses<br />
seeing it as a must-have platform. CIOs<br />
were enamoured by the sudden<br />
scalability available at their fingertips<br />
and as the technology proliferated,<br />
many companies clamoured to migrate<br />
their workloads. The cloud computing<br />
model captured everyone's<br />
imagination by promising an agile,<br />
scalable and cost-effective platform.<br />
It seemed to be the perfect solution<br />
to many of the challenges businesses<br />
were experiencing with older legacy<br />
systems.<br />
Traditional storage platforms were<br />
struggling to keep up with volumes of<br />
data and the need to over- provision<br />
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