Do You Have All the Right Pieces for a Cloud Strategy?

Grazed from Avanade.  Author: Scott Lewis.

Ah, the cloud. Everyone is doing it. Everyone is talking about it. While writing this blog post, I decided to Google the number of recent news articles on cloud strategy within the last 24 hours. Want to read all the articles? Hope you have nothing else on your schedule today or recently completed a speed reading course because a quick count revealed approximately 250 articles.

According to the 5th Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study released in November 2014 by CompTIA, more than 90% of companies have adopted cloud computing at some level. But the study also reveals that moving applications, infrastructure and other resources are not so easy to implement. In addition, 28% of companies in the early stages of cloud conversion indicated that it required “significant” effort, while this jumps to 63% for companies who have already completed their journey…

The Need for a Complete Cloud Strategy

The journey to cloud is like building a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. Imagine a tranquil scene with a few horses, some mountains in the background and a big cloudy sky. In the beginning you start with the easy pieces to connect, most likely the horses. After finding the easiest pieces, then it’s on to the next level, probably the mountains with trees at the lower elevation and snowcap mountain tops comes next. Now, it’s time to assemble the cloud pieces in the sky. All the pieces look similar and the level of difficultly and time increases significantly and we wonder why we decided to do this in the first place…

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