Hi - I am just curious if there are others out there that have transitioned to the Talend Cloud architecture from an in-house on premises architecture and if you an have insight or comments as to how that process went. Thanks in advance for your comments.
Thanks for your question. Unfortunately with questions like these, they tend to require a lot of answering. From my experience on here, this tends to put people off answering. Maybe I can help get the conversation going by talking about a stepping stone method of migrating to the Cloud.
Since many organisations have rules regarding data processing locations (Swiss banks being a good example), Talend have developed a Remote Engine solution to work with the Cloud. This allows organisations to have a Cloud architecture while having total control over where their data is actually processed. A Remote Engine can be run on your servers locally, in another Cloud, anywhere. This also works to help organisation migrate to the Cloud. Since you will likely have an on-premises solution which sits behind firewalls with databases which are also behind those firewalls, a Remote Engine could be a very nice stepping stone solution for you. Your admin would be carried out in the Talend Cloud, while your data processing could be taking place wherever you want it. Migrating your existing jobs from your on-prem solution to this would require minimal (if any) work at all. Then it would simply be a case of learning to how to efficiently start building jobs to be run in Talend Cloud....if you do indeed ever want to do that. Some users will use Talend Cloud for administration while running all of their jobs on different Remote Engines.
