Computing Explains: The pace of migration to the cloud

What are the realities of such a big move for your organisation?

In this video, Computing's Peter Gothard explores the pace of migration to the cloud and the realities of moving to cloud.

Many businesses are looking to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms to take care of tasks that have previously been managed in the data centre.

There are many reasons why cloud can be an attractive option. Chief among these are quick deployment, almost infinite scalability, enormous computing power and storage on tap, high availability and the ability to spin up services without the upfront costs. However, the pace of migration in not as fast as you might imagine.

Hear Computing's point of view on cloud adoption and a few words from IBM on the essentials for building a cloud environment.