FEBRUARY 201719THE KEY FOR CLOUD JOURNEYSBy Aravindan Anandan, Consulting Systems Engineer - Asia Pacific, Barracuda NetworksBarracuda Networks (NYSE: CUDA) is a provider of cloud-connected security and storage solutions. The California based company has a current market cap of $1.80 billion.Organizations today are increasingly ac-knowledging the benefits of cloud and cloud-managed services like Office 365 and Amazon Web Services. The worldwide use of public cloud services will grow at a 19.4 percent annual rate over the next five years, from nearly $70 billion in 2015 to more than $141 billion in 2019. That's six times the growth rate of enter-prise IT spending as a whole and will cause cloud spend-ing to double during that time period, according to market researcher IDC.But to be able to reap the benefits that cloud has to offer, an organization must first overcome migration challenges, especially those created by vast volumes of data. The cloud migration checklist should include managing legacy PST files, ensuring optimal traffic for cloud services, and providing a layered approach to information security and management.To eliminate redundant workloads pre-migration, during migration and post-migration, enterprises should consider security and storage solutions that:Condense Operational & Management OverheadsThe enormous tomes of email information, stored in both Exchange servers and PST files that organizations typically accumulate create logistical challenges of migration that have a significant bearing on upload and storage costs. This holds true for especially PST files that contain as many as thousands of emails and attachments, in addition to hundreds of contacts, calendar items and task lists that combine to form gigantic volumes of data backup, recovery, corruption and discovery challenges. Some organizations have resorted to file and message archiving, eDiscovery, and PST management solutions to CXO INSIGHTS
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