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Should I stay or should I go … to a cloud provider ?
Matt Edgley , Director , TeleData UK , discusses the relationship between cloud and data centres and explains why it ’ s better to consider all the factors that are relevant to your business , look for providers that meet those needs and make sure you ask the right questions .
Moving to a cloud provider is a consideration that really came to the fore for a lot of businesses during the course of the pandemic . The requirement for flexible , secure working at any time and from anywhere meant that cloud really ticked a lot of boxes and this prompted many firms to begin or accelerate their Digital Transformation journeys . But should businesses really be making this leap – should they stay where they are , or move to a cloud provider ?
Unless we ’ re talking about a single server or application , the question of whether
It doesn ’ t have to be one or the other . You don ’ t have to choose to stay , or to go .
firms should be jumping ship entirely and moving the whole of their IT infrastructure to a cloud provider is probably the wrong question to be asking . Especially for businesses that use a variety of types of workloads or applications .
Choosing to ‘ stay ’ within a data centre for example , may often be the correct choice for static workloads – ones that don ’ t really change their resource usage or storage consumption day-to-day , month-to-month or year-to-year , or for
Data centres and cloud can easily co-exist and provide the ideal combination for a spread of applications and information .
applications that just ‘ tick over ’. But this doesn ’ t mean that a company has to make that same choice for the rest of its IT estate . It doesn ’ t have to be one or the other . You don ’ t have to choose to stay , or to go .
Data centres and cloud can easily coexist and provide the ideal combination for a spread of applications and information . So rather than asking whether to stay in a data centre or go to a cloud provider , businesses ought to be asking themselves whether they are working with the right provider for their technical needs . In most cases , you would be looking for a technology-agnostic provider that can handle the network and security aspects of a blended , hybrid platform . You want the best of both worlds – the agility of the cloud and the control of colocation . A provider that offers interconnected cloud and colocation services would be a good place to start .
But then there are the different types of cloud solutions to consider : public cloud ; www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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