5 Steps To A Successful Cloud Strategy

December 6, 2014 Off By David
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Grazed from BusinessWeek.  Author: Colin McCabe.

The cloud has been the subject of much hype recently, and with good reason. There are significant benefits of moving to the cloud, including shorter application deployment times and plummeting costs. These measurable benefits make it tempting for businesses to run towards the cloud. Right now the most challenging, important and strategic decision that CIOs face is how to build the right cloud for their business.

CIOs that make the right choices can significantly improve their organisation’s competitiveness, flexibility and IT economics for the next decade or more. Fearing security risks and being locked in to unsuitable arrangements, many CIOs are reluctant to let go of the traditional model of capital expenditure, hardware budgets and data centres…


In order to leverage the benefits of the cloud and avoid the risks, new architectures at the infrastructure and application levels are necessary.  To fully benefit from the value that cloud computing offers, organisations should follow these five key steps…

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