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THE SHIFT TO THE PUBLIC CLOUD :
ADVICE FOR BUSINESSES MAKING THE MOVE
The pandemic has accelerated the shift to the cloud for many organisations , which have realised the many benefits . But , to make the most of the benefits , businesses need to be aware of potential cloud pitfalls too – and have a seamless Business Continuity and data protection strategy in place . Bob Petrocelli , CTO of Datto discusses current cloud adoption trends and provides useful advice for SME organisations wanting to migrate their business applications to the public cloud .
HE PANDEMIC HAS
T accelerated the shift to the cloud for many organisations . By decoupling their business applications and workloads from on-premises hardware and moving to Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) solutions such as Microsoft Azure , businesses can make better use of computing resources , scale more flexibly and gain room for seamless growth . In addition , migrating to the cloud can be a key driver in modernising business practices , facilitating continued remote working , as well as improving collaboration , performance and security .
While larger enterprises are ahead with cloud adoption – with public cloud end-user spending forecasted to grow 23 % in 2021 – SMEs are now also starting to eye up Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) and Azure . Azure in particular feels like a natural choice for smaller organisations that already rely heavily on Microsoft solutions . There are financial advantages to this choice too : organisations already using on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licences can use those licences in the Azure cloud at no additional cost .
So , for many SMEs , Azure seems to be the default option – whether they are lifting and shifting all their existing on-premises virtual machine servers to the cloud as-is or taking a hybrid approach that consolidates some
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