How To Overcome Data Migration Challenges and Accelerate Cloud Adoption?

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Over two-thirds of organizations plan to increase their cloud computing spending in 2024. More than half attribute this rise to factors such as cloud services (like AI), increased resources for new business initiatives, and shifting workloads from on-premises or private data centers.

However, many organizations face significant challenges during cloud migration, often resulting in stalled projects and cost overruns. These challenges can feel insurmountable, as planning becomes difficult due to unforeseen issues, and the talent needed to address them is scarce.

Cloud migrations are inherently complex, making it critical to find solutions that simplify the process for each application being moved.

OpenText™ InfoArchive is designed specifically to tackle these challenges. InfoArchive helps organizations minimize migration costs and timelines, streamline infrastructure, and manage long-term compliance and data access needs. Below are common obstacles encountered during cloud migrations and how InfoArchive addresses each:

• Application migration limitations: Some legacy applications, such as those built on Visual Basic or mainframes, are difficult to move to the cloud due to outdated environments or licensing restrictions. If these applications no longer process data, InfoArchive can assist in retiring them while archiving the data, ensuring secure access, searchability, and compliance.

• Scalability and performance costs: Many legacy applications have scalability and performance issues that make cloud transitions costly. InfoArchive leverages scalable, distributed cloud architectures and integrates with native cloud databases and storage. It dynamically adjusts resources to ensure cost-efficient computing and storage.

• Security requirements: Legacy application architectures can create security roadblocks, preventing data from being moved to the cloud. InfoArchive, with its modern cloud-first design, meets stringent security standards, including encryption using customer-managed keys.

• Transitioning dormant data: Migrating business-complete data into modern cloud applications can be expensive, as some applications impose high fees for retaining inactive data. InfoArchive can take on long-term retention and legal hold responsibilities, so only active data is moved to new cloud solutions.

• Regulatory compliance: Evolving data retention, sovereignty, privacy, and legal hold requirements can complicate governance. InfoArchive is built to handle both structured and unstructured data, providing flexible compliance capabilities to meet changing regulations.

• Skill gaps: Legacy systems often require specialized knowledge even after migration, draining IT resources. InfoArchive consolidates this data into a unified platform, reducing the need for expert support and freeing resources to focus on current systems.

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