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have undergone their own migration, from
the IT office to the boardroom.
Depending on the business model,
organisations could be fretting over
perimeter protection, PCI compliance,
cross-jurisdictional data-privacy
regulations or disaster recovery.
Building your ideal hybrid IT infrastructure
will require a long, hard look at your
current security policies and the
formulation of new ones that allow a
secure environment without hampering
your operational ambitions. Do not
be afraid to re-evaluate your entire
data-protection and disaster-recovery
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processes, to ensure all your digital bases
are covered. Your recovery objectives may
have changed, before or during the design
of hybrid cloud. something new, it is prudent to let others
fail first. But hybrid cloud is now mature
enough that the major lessons have all
been learned.
As a result, you may find that the recovery
options available to you are no longer
fast enough for your new ambitions,
necessitating the switch to flash storage. Others have both failed and succeeded,
and Digital Transformation is working
its magic on those that have been duly
cautious with their planning. I urge you to
be one of them.
And if you find yourself needing to
repurpose your backup data under your
new paradigm, then consider using
object storage for the long term, to
ensure greater accessibility than you
would receive with tape solutions. As
with any endeavour where you adopt
Modern IT infrastructure roadmaps,
diligently navigated, can take you where
you want to be, with your data working
for you, delivering the actionable insights
that will keep you relevant in the global
digital economy.
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