How likely is it that you’re still driving your first car, or living in your first house? Not very likely. In our personal lives, we migrate to different solutions based on our needs at that time. Nobody expects us to buy a car from the same manufacturer or continue to live in the same neighborhood, just because that’s where we started.
In the same way, most organizations in the past few years have invested in the private or public cloud but now find themselves wanting to move from one cloud strategy or infrastructure to another, based on business needs. However, the thought of moving data from one cloud to another makes most IT managers very nervous. At best, you don’t want to sacrifice the important critical business requirements of capability, agility, cost-effectiveness, and performance. Not to mention the worst case scenario of suffering from lost data, downtime or high cost.
The good news is just because you want or need to change your cloud infrastructure, you don’t have to put your company’s data (or your job) at risk. A strong solution that enables you to move data from one cloud to another will help you avoid vendor lock in and stay in control of your data/workload portability.
