Attend to tips 1-5, and you will be miles ahead of the vast majority of businesses moving

applications and workloads to the cloud. You won’t be moving outdated assets. Business continuity

and disaster recovery planning can focus on what’s most critical to your business. You’ll know your storage hierarchy requirements, and which data need the greatest protection. You’ll know what

audits and certifications are most critical to your specific data management, security and

compliance requirements. And, the field of service providers capable of satisfying all the conditions

will be narrowed dramatically, making your evaluation process much less of an ordeal.

Attend to tips 1-5, and you will be miles ahead of the vast majority of businesses moving

applications and workloads to the cloud. You won’t be moving outdated assets. Business continuity

and disaster recovery planning can focus on what’s most critical to your business. You’ll know your storage hierarchy requirements, and which data need the greatest protection. You’ll know what

audits and certifications are most critical to your specific data management, security and

compliance requirements. And, the field of service providers capable of satisfying all the conditions

will be narrowed dramatically, making your evaluation process much less of an ordeal.