Along with all the positives, the Industrial Revolution brought us congested cities, polluted rivers and urban ghettos. The automobile brought smog, road fatalities and a heavy dependence on the oil economy. While some may wish for a return to an idyllic rural pre-industrial lifestyle with horse-drawn transportation, there is no going back. It’s the same with cloud storage. The cloud is a fact of life in enterprise data storage—whether storage managers like it or not. There is no returning to the old days of vast internal data centers holding row upon row of storage arrays. And yet cloud storage problems abound. Check Out The 5 Tips To address Cloud Storage Problems

1. 5 Tips
To Address
Cloud Storage Problems

2. #Be Prepared
Greg Schulz, an analyst at StorageIO Group, said many
of the problems experienced with cloud storage tie back
to not having been prepared upfront
“Don’t be afraid of the cloud, be prepared and do your
homework,” he said. “If you can document your
concerns, then you can also work to address those
concerns, including workarounds as needed.”

3. #Define Your Cloud Storage
Needs
Another important point is gaining an understanding of
the various types of cloud storage options out there.
Otherwise, you may end up using cloud storage that
doesn’t align with the needs of your applications. Do you
need bulk storage for video, image, archiving or a place
to park large amounts of data, for example? Other needs
might be for file sync and share, cloud storage or a
backup or disaster recovery (DR) storage service.

4. #Avoid Migration Back &Forth
A major challenge when considering cloud storage is
ensuring that the data that is being migrated to the cloud
are the correct workloads, as the costs associated with
moving data back and forth from the provider back to a
local environment can be significant. Such costs could far
outweigh the original justification created to move the
data to the cloud.

5. #Use Consistent Management
Tools
Consistency is the key. It’s very well to have some data in
the cloud and other data on-site.

6. #Start Small
Biggest tip for someone beginning to move to cloud storage is
to start small. Pick a small well-defined workload, he said, that
lends itself well to public cloud such as offsite backups and
migrate that workload first. Measure the results and learn
from the experience to see which other workloads would be
suitable to migrate.

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