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the business environment," Mathisen noted, adding that such concerns can become
exponentially worse when applications are based on microservices or distributed across
wide-area networks.
SEE: Cloud v. data center decision (https://www.zdnet.com/topic/the-cloud-v-data-center-decision/)
(ZDNet special report) | Download the report as a PDF (https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-
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"When you start breaking those things apart, you can start breaking those systems. You
have to understand those things," Mathisen said. He reminds clients to keep in mind that
some system components may synchronize hourly or weekly or monthly or quarterly or
annually, so what you inadvertently break now may not be obvious until much later.
"You've got to understand the interoperability and data portability," Mathisen continued.
Software-as-a-service companies never admit this, but they love vendor lock-in
(https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-ways-to-avoid-vendor-lock-in/). "It's kind of like the roach motel.
You know what they say, you can check in but you can't check out," he joked.
The people matter, too. For example, your IT department may have shifted its personnel
away from system administration experts and toward network management experts when
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things got cloudy, but if you move back, you need to change the personnel yet again.
Finally, Mathisen said, "You need to make sure you re-align your service continuity and your
disaster recovery plan so it represents the new paradigm that you're getting into." It would
be easy to overlook long-ago plans for disaster recovery, which now might be obsolete
after bringing applications in-house, he explained.
SEE: Disaster recovery and business continuity plan
(http://www.techproresearch.com/downloads/disaster-recovery-and-business-continuity-plan/) (Tech Pro
Research)
Speaking of disaster recovery, there's software made for that purpose from many vendors,
and it could reasonably be re-purposed to help companies leave a cloud. Veritas product
manager Vidhi Kastuar made that point in a conversation about the company's
CloudMobility (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/cloud-to-cloud-migration-emerging-as-new-class-of-
software. The application launched in 2017 with a focus on helping
maintenance-software/)
companies move from one cloud to another. Features for moving from a cloud back to your
own location will be part of a significant update due in the next couple of quarters, she
said.
Kastuar suggested that if companies are using public clouds and wish to bring their data
back home, then they may want to evaluate private cloud options as a less complicated
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she noted.
4D Data Centres, located in the UK, provided additional comments from Operations
Director Steve Wright. "The number one discussion we have with CIOs is around costs and
cost inflation. While on the face of it, the elasticity of public cloud providers gives great
flexibility, the majority of services delivered for the enterprise have relatively predictable
workloads," he said. "The additional cost for flexibility is negated by this predictability.
Enterprises are also caught out regularly by bandwidth charges either within the cloud
environment or into their offices. Services such as direct connect or peering can help to
reduce this, but this lack of control and precision has been a significant cause of tension
between the CIO and CFO."
SEE: 2019 IT Budget Research Report: IT spending increases due to business
conditions, security, and revenue opportunities
(http://www.techproresearch.com/downloads/2019-it-budget-research-report-it-spending-increases-due-to-
business-conditions-security-and-revenue-opportunities/) (Tech Pro Research)
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"In approaching the plan to de-cloud parts of the enterprises IT services, it is critical to
understand the relationships between systems and proprietary services that may have
been built within the cloud service provider's ecosystem. However, the number one starting
point for this assessment is at the infrastructure-as-a-service areas. These are generally the
fastest and easiest to move and have fewer direct tie-ins restricting movement away from
the cloud provider," Wright continued. "Significant cost efficiencies can be made by looking
into these areas of predictable resource requirements and looking at the total cost of
ownership over either 24 or 36 months justifying the potential capital expenditure
required."
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