The movement of applications and IT infrastructure to the cloud is well
underway, motivated by potential costs savings, improved scalability and
increased flexibility in deploying and managing a business and technical
solution. For many companies, the immediate goal is delivering the same
IT and applications capabilities they have today, but at a lower cost and far
more quickly – and migrating to the cloud is merely the next generation
infrastructure upgrade. What these companies may not realize is they are
getting a whole lot more.