Moving to a Cloud: Top 5 Barriers to Cloud Adoption – And How to Break Them Down.

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Simon Mitchell.

There are always barriers to introducing any new technology. But they can be overcome.

Barrier One – NIH* Syndrome. * Not Invented Here

Organisations have legacy systems they have developed over many years in response to their particular needs. Staff who have developed it, operated it and worked late into the night fixing it feel an emotional attachment to it. A Cloud can feel nebulous and remote, almost like it belongs to someone else. You can’t own a Cloud but a good IT consultancy will work with your staff and break down this barrier to Cloud adoption by giving them ownership of your Cloud-based project…

Barrier Two – Loss of Control

SysAdmins used to working in the same building as ‘their’ servers can feel they’ve been demoted to users on a Cloud system they don’t control or own at a physical level.
Start small, add some Cloud servers for non-critical operations. A Linux systems management specialist can provide the tools your staff need to operate them, and training they need to build their careers. In future they may not have direct access to the hardware, but they will still be very much in control of the system…

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