If your board asked tomorrow if you could move your data somewhere else, what would you say? And how fast could you do it?
Most Canadian organizations went cloud-first for speed. Then conditions changed. Platform costs climbed, sovereignty rules tightened, and OSFI’s operational resilience expectations came into full effect. In this episode, Rick Byrne sits down with Chris McDonald, Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam, to unpack why so many by-the-book strategies quietly became traps. And how to find out whether yours is one, in about an hour, not a year.
You’ll learn:
• Why "cloud-first" was never supposed to mean cloud-forever, and the harmless day-one decisions that quietly remove your ability to change your mind
• The distinction most leaders miss: residency answers where your data is; sovereignty answers whose laws govern it
• What getting trapped actually costs — the move that should take weeks and takes nine to twelve months instead
• Three questions to ask your team Monday morning to uncover hidden dependencies before a boardroom does
Chris McDonald is a Senior Systems Engineer at Veeam — the technical resource Veeam’s engineering teams across Canada lean on for design and architecture.
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