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title: A Checklist For Cloud Data Management
description: Use this handy checklist when you’re researching data protection that supports files, applications, databases, and hypervisors, plus both public and private clouds.
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## A Checklist For Cloud Data Management

 Written on: ** Jan 10, 2019 8:30:00 AM **

 Written by: ** Alex Raben **

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##### **Upgrade your data management strategy to support today’s demands.**

The system – or systems – you purchased or inherited years ago are probably not appropriate for the modern data protection needs of your organisation.

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Use this handy checklist when you’re researching data protection that supports files, applications, databases, and hypervisors, plus both public and private clouds.

##### What areas of data management does this system support?

- Data backup  
  Data recovery  
  Single view of on-premises and cloud data  
  Setting automated data policies  
  eDiscovery  
  Disaster recovery  
  GDPR readiness  
  Ransomware recovery options  
  eDiscovery  
  Disaster recovery  
  GDPR readiness  
  Ransomware recovery options

##### What is the breadth and depth of cloud support?

**Microsoft Azure**

- Azure Virtual Machines  
  Azure SQL Database  
  Azure Blob Storage (Hot and Cool and Archive)  
  Azure Data Box

**Amazon AWS**

- Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)  
  Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)  
  Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3 & S3-IA)  
  Glacier  
  Snowball

**Oracle Cloud**

- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage (OCI)  
  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage (S3 Compatible)  
  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Archive  
  Storage Classic (OCIC)

**Google Cloud**

- Nearline  
  Coldline  
  Regional  
  Multi-Regional

**Private clouds**

- IBM  
  HPE  
  Rackspace  
  VMware

##### What are the data migration capabilities of the system?

- Move data to the cloud
- Move data from the cloud
- Move data across cloud storage – public or private
- Built-in compression, deduplication, and encryption
- Automation to define process flows across data projects
- Orchestration from provisioning to validation
- Native cloud integrations instead of proprietary gateways
- Automated data archiving based on preset retention schedules

##### What data management capabilities are included?

- Manage data across on-premises data centers, public, and private clouds  
  GDPR readiness: detection of personal data for proactive data cleanup and data subject requests  
  Extend on-premises service level agreements (SLA) for policies to cloud  
  Apply consistent management policies as new data enters the environment

##### How does the data management platform support data use?

- Users can discover and recover data across hybrid locations  
  Access data without restoring it; use data directly from the cloud repository  
  Single search for data indexing across on-premises and cloud storage  
  Quickly create new dev/test environments in the cloud using replicated data

##### How does the platform support disaster recovery?

- Manage disaster recovery across on-premises, public, and private cloud storage  
  Automate disaster recovery workflows with tested cloud management policies  
  Push-button disaster recovery processes to create cloud storage, data, and policies  
  Recover data and applications directly in the cloud or across platforms (physical-virtual-cloud)  
  Multiple recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) for different workloads

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