Making the case for cloud migration

In this edition of the blog we look at the making the case for migrating to the cloud.

The decision to migrate to the cloud is usually made for strategic reasons as it offers a practical route for the business to meet evolving expectations and demand. A cloud migration can be considered to meet a multitude of objectives including improving business performance, accelerating time to market, opening up new markets, or facilitating mergers and acquisitions.

Although the resulting technical challenges associated with these strategies can often still be satisfied with an on-premise infrastructure, this presents significantly more work for the IT team and can be too expensive for the Board to swallow when added to the three-yearly IT refresh cycle. One of the major drivers behind the business case for cloud migration is the push towards operational expenditure. The CapEx to OpEx argument is an attractive one and those financial considerations are hard for business leaders to ignore, especially when attempting to take a long-term view in the current climate of economic and political uncertainty.

A third party hosted cloud solution opens up a plethora of new opportunities too, offering the business the freedom to look more closely at core applications and processes rather than simply spending money to maintain the status quo and keep underlying infrastructure up-to-date.

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