Can You Retrieve Your Data After Terminating Your Contract? Consider the following scenarios. Scenario 1: You have a great cloud service provider and have moved all your business data there. One fine morning, you get a notice stating that your provider is going bankrupt and will soon be terminating all contracts. Now, will you get […]
Consider the following scenarios.
Scenario 1: You have a great cloud service provider and have moved all your business data there. One fine morning, you get a notice stating that your provider is going bankrupt and will soon be terminating all contracts. Now, will you get back all your data that is stored on the provider’s servers?
Scenario 2: You have been using Basecamp for your project management needs, but after two years of usage you find Zoho better suits your needs. Can you easily export all your Basecamp data to Zoho?
Put simply, can you easily retrieve your data stored in the cloud to enable you to move from one service to another? This is a question that is worrying CIOs around the world. Unlike typical outsourcing services, retrieving your data from the cloud is not a straightforward thing. CIO.com recently posted an excellent article on this which raises some important questions. In this post, I will try to offer some insight into the topic.
While most businesses are paying a lot of attention to cloud migration, few enterprises think about the end game that comes with termination of the service. The termination of a service can occur due to a number of reasons:
You can see that there are a number of reasons why a service could be terminated, and termination is not at all uncommon. Thus, you need to plan for this occurrence proactively.
Data is one of the crucial elements of business operation, and it is essential that you consider how easily you can retrieve your data outside of the interface provided by your current provider.
By Balaji Viswanathan