Dallas Data Center: Planning Remains Key to Cloud Migrations

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Dallas Data Center

• Planning Remains Key to Cloud Migrations

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Dallas Data Center

• Planning Remains Key to Cloud Migrations

• Cloud delivery methods are becoming more
  pervasive
• Fortunately, greater adoption of cloud strategies
  has given IT staff more visibility into
  requirements for successful deployment
• Carefully developed plan can lead to a company
  leveraging many benefits a cloud model has to
  offer

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Dallas Data Center

• Planning Remains Key to Cloud Migrations

• Crucial Planning Considerations
• Companies need to understand all issues involved
• The pressure to reduce and/or avoid costs puts to
  much focus on benefits of cloud services and not
  properly on issues that may surface
• Following lists represents concerns to
  accommodate in the planning process
• Security will always be a major issue. Proper
  controls and policies must be established. Ex
  Data Loss Prevention (DLP) system
• Cloud services isnt a fail-safe model. No
  service delivery model can guarantee no outage
  will ever occur. Powerful natural disaster can
  cause service interruption
• Cloud computing will continue to have a fairly
  complex learning curve. Migration plan must
  address the expertise required

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Dallas Data Center

• Planning Remains Key to Cloud Migrations

• Crucial Planning Considerations
• Following lists represents concerns to
  accommodate in the planning process
• Migrating to another facility can be challenging.
  Therefore it is important to know where the
  company will be in three to five years
• Compliance becomes an issue. Compliance requires
  increased security and advanced processes.
  Organizations often look into hybrid cloud models
  to comply with regulations

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Dallas Data Center

• Planning Remains Key to Cloud Migrations

• Companies need to develop a well thought out plan
  to ensure all issues that could potentially arise
• Need to select Dallas data center that can
  provide the best environment for their
  infrastructure
• CyrusOne developed an enablement platform for
  cloud services. Sky for the Cloud, provides a
  home for the cloud in a customized data hall
• Sky for the Cloud encompasses peering within a
  single location. This configuration quickly and
  affordably pulls content from the edge of the
  Internet to the heart of the data center

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About the author

• Nicole Aguillard is marketing director for
  CyrusOne, a global enterprise colocation provider
  operating 24 highly secure data centers across
  the United States, London and Singapore. Learn
  more about a Dallas Data Center by visiting
  http//www.cyrusone.com/.