With cloud delivery models becoming more pervasive, organizations need to explore their options at Dallas data centers. Fortunately, the greater adoption of cloud strategies has given IT staff and company executives more visibility into the requirements for a successful deployment. A carefully developed plan can lead to a company leveraging the many benefits a cloud model has to offer. Learn more about a Dallas Data Center by visiting http://www.cyrusone.com/.

1. DALLAS DATA CENTER
PLANNING REMAINS KEY TO CLOUD MIGRATIONS

2. DALLAS DATA CENTER
PLANNING REMAINS KEY TO CLOUD MIGRATIONS
 Cloud delivery methods are becoming more pervasive
 Fortunately, greater adoption of cloud strategies has given IT staff more visibility
into requirements for successful deployment
 Carefully developed plan can lead to a company leveraging many benefits a
cloud model has to offer

3. DALLAS DATA CENTER
PLANNING REMAINS KEY TO CLOUD MIGRATIONS
Crucial Planning Considerations
 Companies need to understand all issues involved
 The pressure to reduce and/or avoid costs puts to much focus on benefits of
cloud services and not properly on issues that may surface
 Following lists represents concerns to accommodate in the planning process:
» Security will always be a major issue. Proper controls and policies must be established.
Ex: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) system
» Cloud services isn’t a fail-safe model. No service delivery model can guarantee no
outage will ever occur. Powerful natural disaster can cause service interruption
» Cloud computing will continue to have a fairly complex learning curve. Migration plan
must address the expertise required

4. DALLAS DATA CENTER
PLANNING REMAINS KEY TO CLOUD MIGRATIONS
Crucial Planning Considerations
 Following lists represents concerns to accommodate in the planning process:
» Migrating to another facility can be challenging. Therefore it is important to know
where the company will be in three to five years
» Compliance becomes an issue. Compliance requires increased security and advanced
processes. Organizations often look into hybrid cloud models to comply with
regulations

5. DALLAS DATA CENTER
PLANNING REMAINS KEY TO CLOUD MIGRATIONS
 Companies need to develop a well thought out plan to ensure all issues that
could potentially arise
 Need to select Dallas data center that can provide the best environment for
their infrastructure
 CyrusOne developed an enablement platform for cloud services. Sky for the
Cloud, provides a home for the cloud in a customized data hall
 Sky for the Cloud encompasses peering within a single location. This
configuration quickly and affordably pulls content from the edge of the Internet
to the heart of the data center

6. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NICOLE AGUILLARD IS MARKETING DIRECTOR FOR CYRUSONE, A
GLOBAL ENTERPRISE COLOCATION PROVIDER OPERATING 24
HIGHLY SECURE DATA CENTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES,
LONDON AND SINGAPORE. LEARN MORE ABOUT A DALLAS DATA
CENTER BY VISITING HTTP://WWW.CYRUSONE.COM/.

7. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NICOLE AGUILLARD IS MARKETING DIRECTOR FOR CYRUSONE, A
GLOBAL ENTERPRISE COLOCATION PROVIDER OPERATING 24
HIGHLY SECURE DATA CENTERS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES,
LONDON AND SINGAPORE. LEARN MORE ABOUT A DALLAS DATA
CENTER BY VISITING HTTP://WWW.CYRUSONE.COM/.