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Veritas expert on the four main
challenges of moving to the cloud
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with that data, what to keep, what to delete,
what to do long-term and then they are
smarter on management.
“Then because they have visibility, we
help them comply with regulations, global
regulations like GDPR for example. We
help them with compliance and then we
work with them to help them keep the high
availability of the data.
“Then there is the migration of the data to
consider, be it within their data centres, or
be it between the data centre and multiple
clouds like the Azure Cloud or AWS Cloud.”
V
eritas Technologies, a leader in
multi-cloud data management, has
announced the results of a global
survey spanning 13 countries indicating that
the majority of global organisations (56%)
operate with a cloud-first mentality when it
comes to deploying new applications and
managing workloads.
The survey shows that only one percent of
organisations will not be adopting cloud
over the next two years. However, the study
reveals that significant misconceptions exist
on the responsibility for data management,
with 69% of organisations wrongfully
believing data protection, data privacy and
compliance are the responsibility of the
cloud service provider.
Intelligent CIO spoke to Johnny Karam, VP
for emerging markets, Veritas, to find out
what the major challenges are of moving
to the cloud. “The first set of challenges for
customers and CIOs is they want to move
into the cloud and they want to consume
it,” said Karam. “However, they don’t know
where to start, which data to pick, and how
to move it there.
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“The second set of challenges is the multi-
cloud complexity. It means that customers
already have data in their data centre that
they need to manage in applications.
“They have applications that are in the cloud,
like their HR systems and what have you.
“They start realising that their critical data is
actually scattered all over the place between
the local data centre, service providers and
the cloud. So having the ability to manage
this multi-cloud approach and getting the
visibility and control is the second challenge.”
The final challenge is helping customers
with software-defined storage. Veritas will
concentrate on the visibility of data and
classification and focus customers on what
data is important.
“This is software-defined storage that helps
them manage their estate in a better way and
helps them manage the cost because you’re
not treating all data equally,” said Karam.
“This is really the high level of the 360 Data
Management that currently, we’re helping
customers with.” n
Karam said the next challenge was
controlling the costs of growing data and
those associated with storing that data and
managing it.
“Today at Veritas, we have a unique approach.
We call it 360 Data Management, where we
practically help the customers protect the
data. Also, we help them get global visibility
because that data could be anywhere,” said
Karam. “We help them get visibility because
once they get visibility into the data, they can
then start making decisions on what to do
Johnny Karam, VP for emerging
markets, Veritas
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