Want to use cloud computing? Make sure and have an exit strategy!
September 23, 2013
Grazed from Dynamics. Author: Editorial Staff.
I had lunch with a friend today who manages internal IT systems for a large film and television media company. He said that he was swamped at work because of an unexpected business crisis: one of his company’s cloud storage service providers is going out of business and he has less than 30 days to try and transfer all of the critical data stored with the provider. He was not involved in the selection or setup with this provider, but is now having to figure out how to save all of the data.
The fun part: His company has over 160 TERABYTES of data stored online with this provider. (It is believed that other customers have many PETABYTES of data stored with this provider, so relatively, 160 TB isn’t nearly as bad.)…
The provider uses "object storage", so there is no simple way to request all of the files and have them transferred to physical drives. And the data is encrypted, so even if he is able to move all of the data somewhere else, he will likely have to purchase the same file encryption appliance to ensure that the file encryption and decryption processes work the same…
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