Preparing your data when moving to the cloud
Many companies that move to the cloud haven't considered data modernization as part of their cloud migration strategy. Not preparing your data as part of your move to the cloud will cost you much more than you think you are saving. Data should be a priority when it comes to your cloud strategy. While the number of considerations for cloud migration gets longer, don't let data modernization slip through the cracks. Here are three things to consider.
No matter if you’re talking about a blockchain database, an in-memory database, a distributed database, or a data lake, there are special purpose databases that are built for a particular purpose that may be better fits for your applications. Look at the efficiency of special purpose databases, ask the question before migrating to the cloud. With many companies using the same old enterprise relational databases that demand higher license fees, moving to a special purpose database will not only increase functionality and optimization, but it will likely to be much cheaper in the cloud.
Consider revisiting both models and structures, most databases are not designed well, and many companies just pick up these bad designs and relocating them to the cloud. Many businesses are not considering other databases models such as object databases and graph databases. Moving to the cloud is the time to look at other database models. what is mandatory is that companies revise any deficiencies in the existing structures. This means revising databases so they best resemble the business. Most databases don't do that because the business changed over the years but the databases did not.
Making the move to the cloud is the time to remove database redundancy and plan a single sources for the data. Look for data redundancy and remove them to make more efficient use of your cloud resources. It is not unusual to find multiple versions of the customer or inventory data in many companies' database. If you intend to move large amounts of data over a network and provide access to that data as a service, you need to be aware of network bandwidth requirements, data security and the total IT costs of providing those services to end users, especially when providing services for data storage and DR protection. There are many ways to deduplicate data, so companies need to be aware of the differences between the available solutions and the impact they may have on security and the ability to efficiently move, protect and store data in the cloud in a cost effective manner.