How much does it cost to move your business to the cloud?
May 26, 2014
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Andy Lancaster.
As knowledgeable as heads of IT and CIOs inevitably are, there is at least one area where an admission of ignorance is wiser than faked knowledge: how to determine the true cost of transitioning an enterprise’s IT into the cloud. At first, this might seem counter-intuitive.
After all, moving from on-premise IT to the cloud is such a fundamental strategic shift, with so many financial, technical and business considerations, that you’d expect any cloud proposal to contain a detailed breakdown of the costs of transition. This was certainly possible in the early days of cloud computing, when there were only the costs of in-house servers and software to measure…
Cloud and fog
The problem today is that as cloud has matured, along with our understanding of the many variables affecting migration, many organisations are still basing their transition strategies on a side-by-side cost comparison between computing in the cloud and on-premise. While this delivers highly specific figures for the total cost of ownership (TCO) of migrating, these numbers ignore a number of considerations that are difficult to quantify with any accuracy. What is more, this method fails to factor in the overarching benefits that cloud provides to the business as a whole…
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