A brief look at different workloads with best practice advice on which are suited to a business Cloud storage environment and which should remain on-premise.

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MOVING TO CLOUD -
WHAT WORKLOADS
SHOULD I MOVE TO A
CLOUD ENVIRONMENT?

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A brief look at different workloads with best practice advice on which
are suited to a business Cloud storage environment and which should
remain on-premise.

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Before you start considering business Cloud storage, be clear on what you understand by “Cloud”.
It’s used in various ways by different people to mean different things. When IT consultants talk about
Cloud, they mean multi-server systems that are highly adaptable and often automated.

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There is more to the business Cloud than
storage. Data is not the only workload
and it is not necessarily the thing you
should move to a Cloud environment first.
Think in terms of memory and CPU
usage - both are expensive to provide
in-house.

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Cloud flexibility is ideal for variable workloads:

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Websites that attract users
at the weekend

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Gaming platforms that are
busy in the evening
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eCommerce sites that boom
following an advertising
campaign

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Tourist attractions dependent
on the weather

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Enrolment systems that depend
on the calendar

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Graphics/video rendering

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In a well-ordered Cloud environment
a server ‘instance’ can be used like a
template to create a new server in less
than 60 seconds.
Some organisations use autoscaling to
create new servers in response to load,
but many prefer manual control and
automated tools that create/destroy
servers at certain times or on certain
dates according to predicted load.

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Websites or applications for in-house
use depend on back-end databases, and
these can be in Cloud, or in-house. Cloud
databases reduce capital expenditure, but
can be hard to move to another supplier,
or bring back in-house.

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It is possible to use business cloud
storage for all your data if you profile the
provider and are sure they can meet your
security requirements. However many
organisations, especially in financial
services and healthcare,
prefer to keep their
data on their
own premises.

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The only thing that absolutely HAS to be
on-site is the basic networking capability
to connect you to the Internet and your
Cloud, as only then will you gain access
to your business cloud storage.

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