How hard is it to shift from on-premise to cloud?

The on-premise data centre is every company's first preference because they get to own the data fully and maintain business confidentiality. But the costs involved in maintaining and running a local data centre are making companies rethink their IT costing strategy. 

The first and foremost solution is a cloud data center that helps them host their data with a service provider. This has a number of advantages over a local server such as;

• Decreased maintenance headache and costs
• Easily scale according to need. No need to buy expensive hardware up-front
• Internet and Intranet capabilities in the same cloud with networking

Lucrative it may seem, the shifting process can be a little difficult. But how difficult is the question? Let's examine. 

For instance, let's say you have a company-owned server and you wish to shift to Microsoft Dubai data centre. For this, you'll need to call in a mass migration of your on-premises data into the cloud. Depending upon the size of your company data, this can take more or less time. 

Microsoft claims that the process can be done under a week. The process includes transfer of mailboxes and databases the company may use. 

It can be done by your own IT staff or you can get experts for data centre migration in Dubai. Microsoft business partners and cloud experts can help to migrate tons of data with ease. 

The company takes care of the entire workflow required for shifting the data while your company can continue to work on the side. Such a process makes it quite cost-effective to mass migrate data and eventually realize the goal of a cloud-enabled workplace environment.