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Everything you need to know about managing data in the cloud

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Even the biggest and most security-obsessed corporates (aka the banks) are adopting a cloud-first policy for managing and storing data. We examine how we got to where we are today and consider what an enterprise needs to migrate its data to the cloud today.

At the turn of the century, ’cloud’ was not part of the nomenclature. The few vendors in the space were known as managed service providers (MSP) offering hosted solutions. Corporates found it extremely hard to trust anyone other than themselves with a copy of their data. But the lure of