Many organizations now share a vision of how they want to manage data and applications across their modern IT infrastructure. No longer do organizations expect them to reside indefinitely in one location – whether on-premises or in the cloud. Rather, four pain points now drive organizations toward adopting modern data mobility to address them.
At the end of every year many individuals try their hand at predicting trends for the upcoming year. How often do these predictions come true, I cannot say. By the time anyone thinks to evaluate the previous year’s predictions, the next round of forecasting begins.
However, the end of 2024 feels different from a forecasting perspective for one simple reason. Forces are already in play, that would seem to make one prediction very easy to make for 2025. Specifically, the emergence of cross-hypervisor virtual machine migration capabilities in data protection software has already begun to take hold.
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If you already use cloud storage to store some or all your archival or backup data, you are in good company. A recent survey of nearly 600 companies found that over 80 percent of them already use the cloud. This potentially creates a new challenge. They find their cloud storage needs change and they must migrate their data from one cloud to another. When this infrequent situation arises, they will find four cloud-to-cloud data migration options available to them.
All organizations hate introducing risk into their production IT environments. Yet many organizations of all sizes regularly take undocumented risks whenever they migrate data from one storage target to another. The need for data migrations often occurs any time they introduce a new storage array or storage target into their environment. While the risk level varies from one organization to the next, none are completely immune from them.
Few data center technologies currently generate more buzz than hyper-converged infrastructure solutions. By combining compute, data protection, flash, scale-out, and virtualization into a single self-contained unit, organizations get the best of what each of these individual technologies has to offer with the flexibility to implement each one in such a way that it matches their specific business needs. Yet organizations must exercise restraint in how many attributes they ascribe to hyper-converged infrastructure solutions as their adoption is a journey, not a destination.
One of my favorite all time movies is The Terminator. It is one of those timeless classics whose video was less than optional, it had some cheesy special effects and it contained dialog that was highlighted by “I’ll be back.” Yet despite these flaws what carried The Terminator and still makes it popular to this day was its compelling story line.
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