7 obstacles that organizations face migrating legacy data to the cloud

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Moving bequest information and different assets to the unreality is perceived by galore organizations arsenic a mode to amended negociate risks, amended efficiency, trim costs and comply with regulatory requirements. But the roadworthy to the unreality is often fraught with bumps. As galore bequest technologies were designed for on-premises use, migrating them to the unreality tin beryllium a challenging process. A caller study from migration bundle supplier Archive360 looks astatine the obstacles and concerns implicit unreality migrations of bequest data.

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The caller study titled "The Future of Legacy Application Data and the Cloud" (PDF) is based connected a survey commissioned by Archive360 and conducted by Pulse successful May and June of 2021. The survey elicited responses from 200 endeavor exertion executives crossed North America, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa), and Asia Pacific.

Only 35% of the respondents store much than fractional of their bequest app information successful the cloud. Some 65% store fractional oregon little than fractional of their information this way. However, 80.5% of them said that migrating their bequest information to the unreality is simply a precedence implicit the adjacent 12 months oregon less. Only 5% of those surveyed didn't see specified a determination a priority.

Asked wherefore they're looking to determination their bequest information off-premises and to the cloud, 46% of the executives cited regulatory compliance arsenic the apical reason. Some 38.5% pointed to outgo savings arsenic the biggest reason, portion 8.5% mentioned concern quality and analytics.

The survey besides asked respondents to place the features and benefits that would astir power them to determination their bequest information to the cloud. The large payment cited by 66% was the integration of information and bequest archives. Some 59% cited the unreality arsenic a mode to centrally negociate the archiving of each information including information from Office 365. Other reasons mentioned included information information and encryption, precocious records management, artificial intelligence-powered regulatory and compliance checking, and accelerated and close centralized search.

Of course, anxiousness implicit cyber threats and cyberattacks besides plays a relation successful the determination to migrate bequest data. Among the respondents, 42% said that concerns implicit cybersecurity and ransomware attacks somewhat oregon importantly accelerated the migration plans. However, astir 90% of those surveyed said that their existent SaaS-based vendors aren't gathering each of their information requirements. More than a 4th reported that their cloud-based information was progressive successful a cyberattack.

Key obstacles and barriers tin marque a unreality migration a frustrating and challenging task. Asked astir the apical barriers they look successful moving bequest information to the cloud, respondents stressed the pursuing 7 items:

1. Concerns implicit regulations and compliance, including planetary privateness regulations, cited by 60%.
2. Worries astir infrastructure and security, cited by 55%
3. Uncertainty astir the fund requirements for unreality adoption, including the full outgo of ownership and instrumentality connected investment, cited by 51%.
4. The measurement and complexity of the information to beryllium migrated, for example, structured versus unstructured data, cited by 50%.
5. The deficiency of method resources and/or endowment required to execute the migration, cited by 45%.
6. The deficiency of implicit ownership and power of information successful the cloud, cited by 18%.
7. Questions surrounding unreality accusation management, for example, granular retention, defensible disposition, eDiscovery/legal clasp and security, cited by 18%.

"We've agelong heard that astir enterprises would similar to negociate their bequest data, including information that's perchance sensitive, successful the cloud, but that doesn't look to person translated into full-fledged unreality adoption and information migration," said Archive360 co-founder and CTO Tibi Popp. "The evident benefits of specified a determination indispensable inactive beryllium balanced with imaginable fears, successful portion due to the fact that galore technologies deployed by SaaS providers were created successful on-premises environments and can't woody with emerging information and compliance priorities. It's clearer than ever that we volition ne'er beryllium capable to instrumentality afloat vantage of unreality architectures until a caller procreation of technologies is adopted."

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