The Cloud – the general consensus on the cloud is that the majority of CIO’s would love to put everything in the cloud. They would rather upload their entire application portfolio into the cloud so somebody else maintains, patches or updates these applications. This opens up a wide opportunity for strategic vs. tactical thinking for the CIO/CTO and their architects and they can stay on track for supporting their business lines. Security, Integration and data migrations between systems will be key areas that must be addressed.
When you review the past 40-50 years of computing, this solution was probably farfetched in the early days, but over time, the pressures of reducing budgets and advances in technology make the cloud an attractive alternative.
So technology advancement and budget pressures creates a large impetuous to migrate to the cloud. Some clients have jumped in while others have gradually put their toes in the water. Each company weighs the risk and reward of their actions. Many retail and e-commerce companies like the scaling aspect of the cloud that when peaks occurred in their business they did not have to invest in additional infrastructure. They like the idea of only paying for infrastructure during computing time not during idle time.