3 WHY CLOUD?
Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?
Because it’s there.
Reported response of George Mallory (English mountaineer) to a journalist’s question, c.1923
Cloud can be seen as just another platform on which to run workloads. So why has it been positioned as a major disruptor in the markets, and why should an organisation look to move to a cloud-based platform model?
To just decide to use cloud ‘because it’s there’ is not a strategy, unless you want to read it as a strategy for disaster. With any change within a business, the reason to move from something to something else must be based upon a solid foundation: for example, that the existing ‘something’ is now unfit for purpose and the target ‘something else’ provides a better way ...
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