Four reasons enterprises hesitate to move to Data Center and why you shouldn’t wait
Is Data Center really worth the cost? We’re here to help answer some of the top concerns we hear from our customers who need to remain in a self-managed environment.
Moving or upgrading to a new edition or deployment is a big decision, and we know how important it is to weigh your options. Cost, timing, differences in capabilities - these are many of the variables we’ve heard our customers evaluate when deciding whether they should move to Data Center.
Lucky for you, we’ve collected the top concerns we’ve heard from executives, and we’re here to help you further assess whether it is the right time to move to Data Center. Read on to get answers to your top apprehensions or questions.
Clean up your instance upon arrival
Is your instance in need of some spring cleaning? Once you update your license key, you can immediately start taking advantage of Data Center features like custom fields optimizer, archiving or
Unleash your admins with advanced controls
Data Center won’t require a larger admin team. In fact, your admins will get access to advanced features not available in server that will make their lives a whole lot easier. Say goodbye to manual upgrades, user provisioning, or other costly administrative work. Instead, they’ll gain more automation allowing them to focus their time on more strategic projects that further your business goals.
Minimize planned downtime
You might not need high availability, but I bet you’d still love to get rid of the downtime associated with upgrades. Atlassian Data Center offers features like zero downtime upgrades in Jira Software and Jira Service Management, or rolling upgrades in Confluence in Bitbucket to eliminate downtime associated with upgrades. You heard that right - no more weekend upgrades!
Beyond high availability, a true enterprise edition
Atlassian Data Center isn’t just server in a clustered architecture. In fact, you can actually deploy Data Center in a non-clustered environment and get access to a number of exclusive features like insights and analytics capabilities to measure the health of your organization or enhanced user management features to give you more security.
Cost reductions
There’s no denying the cost savings the cloud or containers can provide. Deploying on AWS or Azure can help you reduce costs related to infrastructure, maintenance, or administrative support and significantly increase your ROI. With containers, you can streamline testing and automate tedious workflows. But don’t worry, infrastructure capabilities aren’t going anywhere, you can transition to the cloud or leverage containers at your own pace.
Flexibility & scalability
Deploying on the cloud provides a flexible platform that can grow or shrink as needed. This allows you to confidently scale up or down depending on shifts in your business such as pursuing new innovations, exploring new markets, or acquiring new companies.
Support your distributed teams
Don’t want to deploy on the cloud? No problem. Data Center offers still offers modern features that enable you to run highly performant self-managed global environments without needing to have servers in every location. Accelerate the experience and performance of your geographically distributed teams while decreasing overall infrastructure demands and costs for your organization.
Latent cloud security benefits
Deploying Data Center on the cloud not only provides your Atlassian applications with the security your IT team needs, but gives you inherent security components that are provided by cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.
Data Center security benefits
In addition to your organization's security efforts, Data Center is designed with security, compliance, and user management features to help you better safeguard your people, data, and workflows.