Enterprise-Ready Cloud Storage Solutions
When does it make business sense to move your data to the cloud?
Cloud Storage
Cloud storage can have many benefits, including scalability, flexibility, and cost. To benefit the most from cloud, it takes a well-thought-out plan. Are you going to use cloud for long-term archive and retention? Or do you need to build a recovery system in the cloud? Will you just run test/dev, or will cloud also support your processing and production environment?
Cloud Storage for Backup & Archive
Disaster recovery, backup, and data archival are some of the primary uses for cloud storage. This can pose problems if your organization stores a lot of data. There can be challenges with bandwidth and backup times. Many storage vendors have addressed this with appliances that reside on-premises and consolidate backup data.
The key to any disaster recovery or backup plan is to ensure that you can restore your systems within your set timeline. SLAs for cloud solutions can get confusing. We help you navigate the available vendors to find the solution that is right for your organization.
See how we helped National Van Lines to bolster Business Continuity with an IBM Power VS Hybrid Cloud Environment.
Mitigating Cloud Vendor Risks
Your data is the lifeblood of your business. You need to be confident that your data will be available when you need it. This means working with proven solutions built on infrastructure that you trust. Our team thoroughly vets potential partners to ensure they have a sound business and technology road map to support your business.
We go over some of the key factors in choosing a cloud platform in a recent blog post. In this post, we evaluate IBM Cloud Object Storage and SoftLayer.
See the blog for IBM enterprise-class cloud storage.
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There are many considerations when choosing a cloud partner and strategy.
Our team of experienced storage architects takes a cross-team approach. We will bring in application architects and virtualization experts to ensure that you get the solution that is right for you.