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What data can we move ?
So , once you ’ ve established what data you should think about moving , either to a different environment , server , or storage tier , the next and more difficult question is what data you can move . Unfortunately , this is where many organisations face challenges .
Having data portability is crucial to be able to move things around as needed and to simply maintain data hygiene in the long term . But several factors can make it difficult to move or transfer workloads from one location to another . The first is ‘ technical debt ’ – essentially the extra work and maintenance required to update older or scratchbuilt applications to get them to a point where they are transferable and compatible with other environments .
The cause of these issues might be taking shortcuts , making mistakes , or simply not following standard procedures during software development . But leaving it unfixed makes it impossible to optimise environments and can cause additional problems for things like backup and recovery .
The other , perhaps more infamous , issue that can affect data portability is cloud lock-in . It is a well-known fact at this point that businesses can easily be locked into using specific cloud providers . This can be due to dependencies like integrations
Rick Vanover , Senior Director Product Strategy , Veeam
with services and APIs that can ’ t be replicated elsewhere , the sheer ‘ data gravity ’ it might have in a single cloud and a simple knowledge gap meaning teams know how to use their current cloud but lack the expertise to work with a different provider .
Of course , this will only affect moving workloads out of the cloud , so it ' s still possible to build for better portability www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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