Avoid 3 Critical Data Errors While Moving to the Cloud

   

Many companies moving to the cloud forget about updating their data and data transfer technologies. Here’s what to remember to avoid these mistakes.

We often think of the number of enterprises moving the cloud that did not consider data modernization as part of their cloud migration strategy. We know why: money. However, not modernizing your data as part of your move to the cloud will cost you more than you think you are saving.

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Data needs to be a top-notch citizen when it comes to your cloud efforts. While the number of things to think about cloud migration is on the increase, don’t let the data hit your radar. The ROI on your improvements is more than 15X higher.

Look at the performance of specialized databases

Whether you are talking about a blockchain database, an in-memory database, a distributed database, or a data lake, there are special databases created for a specific purpose that may be better suited for your applications.

At least ask a question before migration. Since many enterprises use the same legacy relational databases that require ever-higher licensing fees, moving to a dedicated database will not only result in more functionality and optimizations, but will likely be much cheaper in the cloud.

Consider revising both models and structures

Most databases are poorly designed and many organizations simply pick these bad designs and move them to the cloud. Moreover, they do not consider other database models such as object and graph databases. Moving to the cloud is a great time to look at other database models.

What is pretty much a must is that you fix any flaws in the existing structures. This means rethinking your databases to be more business-like. Most databases don’t do this today because the business has changed over the years, but the databases haven’t.

Find and remove redundancy

How many versions of customer data do you have in your databases? How about inventory data? Do you have more than one or more than 20? Unfortunately, this is quite normal, so the move to the cloud is a time to eliminate database redundancy and find a single source of truth for the data.