How A Healthcare Org Achieved GDPR‑Compliant Cloud Migration
When healthcare companies need to migrate data and users from one cloud platform to another, having a proper strategy in place is extremely important, especially when it comes to adhering to GDPR during the migration.
To help you understand more about this, we have highlighted a case study of a UK-based healthcare company that migrated successfully with us while ensuring 100% GDPR compliance.
Key Takeaways:
✔ A UK-based healthcare company wanted to perform GDPR-compliant migration.
✔ Ensuring full GDPR compliance, migrating large volumes of data were some of the main challenges.
✔ They chose CloudFuze as their cloud migration partner to achieve their goals.
✔ They chose CloudFuze as their cloud migration partner to achieve their goals.
Use Case: Reasons to Migrate
The healthcare company wanted to move away from multiple cloud platforms and consolidate into a single cloud suite, Microsoft 365, to simplify licensing structure as well as establish proper security and governance.
For this, they needed a cloud migration partner that could help them perform multi-workload cloud migration while ensuring complete security and GDPR compliance.
Cloud Migration Tool Evaluation Criteria
To perform a strategic and GDPR-complaint cloud migration, the healthcare company looked for a cloud migration service provider that had prior experience in addressing similar use cases. They also had several tool evaluation criteria, including:
Among several GDPR-compliant cloud migration service providers, the healthcare company chose CloudFuze as we were able to check all the boxes.
At CloudFuze, we have helped many large-sized healthcare companies migrate their sensitive data across cloud platforms securely and successfully. We also have an unmatched track record in ensuring complete GDPR compliance during cloud migration of all sizes and complexities.
Migration Challenges
The healthcare company faced several challenges that added several layers of complexity to the overall migration journey. Some of the major challenges of the migration were:
| Challenges | Solutions Needed | Supported by CloudFuze |
|---|---|---|
| Migrating multiple workloads | Using a parallel migration approach to avoid downtime during multi-workload migration. | Yes |
| Complying with GDPR during migration | Ensuring data residency during the migration by using locally hosted migration instances. | Yes |
| Ensuring security of sensitive healthcare data | Using robust security practices, such as secure cloud authentication, data encryption, and more. | Yes |
| Preserving metadata and context | Preservation of sharing permissions, timestamps, file versions, external shares, and shared links. | Yes |
| Preserving hyperlinks (embedded links) during migration | Migrating hyperlinks without breaking them. | Yes |
| Ensuring proper post-migration integration | Integrating the migrated data with third-party apps in Microsoft 365 that are same or similar to the third-party apps previously used in source cloud platforms. | Yes |
Proven Solutions from CloudFuze
With a depth of experience in helping large organizations perform secure and GDPR compliant cloud migrations, we at CloudFuze, were able to address the healthcare company’s migration needs while helping them navigate through the challenges.
We helped them perform multi-workload cloud migration with our parallel migration approach that involves using dedicated instances for each migration workload, such as content, chat messages, emails, calendar, and more.
We also helped them ensure 100% GDPR compliance by deploying our cloud migration tool, CloudFuze Migrate, in instances that were locally hosted within the UK region.
Migration Outcomes
By using our advanced cloud migration tool and proven methodologies, the healthcare company was able to achieve several positive migration outcomes, including:
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Migrate with 100% GDPR Compliance with CloudFuze
Leverage our advanced migration tool and methodologies to perform GDPR compliant cloud migration. We have helped several UK-based companies, such as London Gatwick Airport, perform GDPR complaint migrations while helping him achieve all the migration goals.
Contact us today to learn more about our migration processes that help ensure full GDPR compliance.
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Frequently Asked Questions
1. Who are the best cloud service providers for GDPR-compliant cloud migration?
CloudFuze is one of the best cloud migration service providers for GDPR-compliant cloud migrations. Whether you are planning to migrate within or outside UK and EU borders, CloudFuze helps ensure complete GDPR compliance during the entire migration journey by maintaining full data residency.
2. How to ensure GDPR compliance during cloud migration?
Using locally hosted instances is the best way to ensure complete data residency and comply with GDPR. At CloudFuze, we deploy our cloud migration tool in instances that are locally hosted with the UK and EU region for complete data residency and GDPR compliance.
3. How to handle cross-border data transfers in GDPR cloud migration?
Ensure data does not leave the UK and EU region when planning to perform a cross-border data transfer. It is best to maintain complete data residency by using locally hosted tools and performing migration within the UK and EU regions.
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