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Identify which data to move

Identify which data to move

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Identify which data to move

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- Please don't forget about the data. It's the lifeblood of applications, and in most cases, the data is everything to an enterprise. As such, the selection of which data to migrate to the cloud is critical and you need to consider security issues, or how the data needs to be secured to meet the needs of the business. Compliance issues or how to deal with the data to meet state, local, and federal laws. Finally, performance issues or how well the systems in the cloud will perform, given the data processing requirements. Here too, we must consider the business case and establish what the data migration is worth to the business. We also need to look at the data content or what the data is. Finally, we need to consider modernization again, including looking at new database technology that may be available and should be used. Data requires special considerations, such as the need to deal with compliance and security issues, meaning that some data may not be right for the cloud due to…

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