CIOs are increasingly looking to move to the cloud to cut equipment and staffing costs. However, moving to the cloud can often be a difficult transition. It’s not just a question of picking up your systems and going; enterprises need to do thorough and careful planning. They must rethink their existing approaches to IT and mustn’t assume that cloud-based applications can be tapped easily. Although it’s been beset by frequent changes at the top in its IT sector, and is understaffed, the U.S. federal government is moving to the cloud en masse over time.
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The Myths of Moving Cloudward
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 21, 2010 05:00 AMCIOs are increasingly looking to move to the cloud to cut equipment and staffing costs. However, moving to the cloud can often be a difficult transition. It’s not just a question of picking up your systems and going; enterprises need to do thorough and careful planning. They must rethink their existing approaches to IT and mustn’t assume that cloud-based applications can be tapped easily. Although it’s been beset by frequent changes at the top in its IT sector, and is understaffed, the U.S. federal government is moving to the cloud en masse over time.