Cloud processing: just the beginning of the storm?

INTRODUCTION

The debate of why to move to cloud and when it makes sense to seems to be ubiquitous, but the question is asked uniquely by each organization depending on their starting point.

Factors including a company’s compute needs, either for processing or data management, business constraints in place including legal and financial restrictions, the readiness of the cloud offer at the time the question is asked and a company’s strategy, in combination with a wide range of other pushes and pulls leads to cloud adoption taking place at a widely varied pace.

Here we consider why it is a simple decision for some and much tougher for others and then explore opportunities that are opened up when cloud is adopted.