It’s been pretty Cloudy on the IT front for the last several years.  AWS, Azure and IBM SoftLayer leading the pack and spinning up some impressive marketing materials around moving all workloads to the cloud.  Immediately. Easy Peasy!

Well, reality is sinking in as customers make the attempt to move “everything” and find that the application, process, regulatory and departmental interdependencies, along with the preparation needed for general lift and shift of certain workloads,  are not as easy in practice as they are on paper.

If you're considering a move to cloud for your business, then you're certainly not alone. Interest in cloud computing is at an all-time high among business leaders. They are looking for ways to leverage the cloud to benefit their business. It's really no wonder why: the cloud can offer a number of important business benefits, including the abilities to scale compute capacity rapidly, maximize efficiency, and spread costs out over time rather than paying high up-front capital expenses.