My Head’s in the Cloud (Okay, the Cloud Server). Now What? – Moving Applications and Data to Cloud Storage
By Johnny Hatch | April 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Transferring applications and data from your current systems to a cloud server is a relatively simple three-step process, but it can be completed in a wide combination of ways.
The first step is to identify a data transfer protocol that you will use to copy your data. You could use FTP, SFTP, NFS, CIFS, WebDAV, or a variety of other storage or transfer protocols.
The second step is to configure your cloud servers to respond to these protocols. For example, you may need to setup an FTP server, NFS mount, network share, or Samba server.
The third step is to setup port forwarding on your cloud network to allow incoming traffic from the Internet to your cloud servers. Now you should be able to copy data from your existing systems to your new cloud servers.
To understand which combination works best for your company, contact us today, or check out the ReliaCloud Knowledge Base. It’s always a great resource for using your cloud server or cloud storage, search specific keywords, or browse by topic for answers to your cloud computing questions.
Tags: cloud computing, cloud storage, moving applications, moving data, transferring applications
April 7th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
You forgot the security steps – arguably the most important steps of the process.