How do I migrate my public cloud data back to on-premise storage?

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Del Lunn.

With the adoption of cloud computing, and more specifically cloud storage, on the rise, companies can now easily look to reduce the cost and complexity of their applications and associated data. The economies of scale and shared infrastructure allow service providers to deliver cloud-based storage at a very low cost, compared to traditional on-premise storage platforms.

Currently, the popular cloud storage use cases tend to be infrequently accessed data scenarios such as archiving, backup, DR, and offsite data protection. But what happens when a company decides it wants to move its data and applications back to the on-premise storage platform? Del Lunn of GlassHouse Technologies talks us through the biggest challenges…

Public, hybrid or multi-cloud?

First of all, in the case of the public cloud it is probable that your company will have data hosted with various cloud vendors in a hybrid or multi-cloud model. Hybrid models, however, tend to bring different contractual obligations and interoperability issues, with the need to deal with different SLAs, toolsets, APIs and management infrastructures. So migration back to the on-premise storage could well be a challenge purely in terms of dealing with several vendors, leveraging APIs and tooling for each different service provider to enable the data migration…

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