Congratulations! After much thought and consideration, you have decided that you are ready to move your data into the cloud. You will soon start enjoying the benefits of cloud computing, including peace of mind that your data is safe and secure.

However, as an important step, you must first get your data to the cloud. Here are several tips for consideration that will help optimize your first cloud backup deployment.

Prioritize Your Data

When you decide to use cloud backup from Essential Data Services, we will first make an initial backup of your data before we start backing up your data incrementally. Depending on the amount of data you require to have backed up, this initial backup can take some time. As a result, it is important to prioritize your data aE” first backing up the most critical files as well as the files that are used most often.

Balance Your Bandwidth

When conducting the initial backup, steps can be taken to ensure that your network isnaE