Moving to a Cloud: What Workloads Should I Move to a Cloud Environment?
October 27, 2014
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Simon Mitchell.
Before you start considering business Cloud storage, be clear on what you understand by “Cloud”. It’s used in various ways by different people to mean different things. When IT consultants talk about Cloud, they mean multi-server systems that are highly adaptable and often automated.
There is more to the business Cloud than storage. Data is not the only workload and it is not necessarily the thing you should move to a Cloud environmnet first. Think in terms of memory and CPU usage – both are expensive to provide in-house.
Cloud flexibility is ideal for variable workloads:…