Lifting and Shifting Enterprise Apps to the Cloud

5 rules to follow (and 1 to break)

Published January 2017

For many organizations, moving enterprise applications to the public cloud can be a very attractive proposition.

It enables them to dispose of the fixed costs and assets involved in running large-scale IT infrastructure, including expensive data centres packed with equipment of different generations and levels of supportability.

While these servers are running the enterprise, they are also consuming power, making heat, and demanding expensive support contracts