Time to take things cool and slow
Joseph Martins Tue 20 Apr 2021 // 18:00 UTC Share
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Sponsored It’s understandable that people get excited about the cloud. As well as the prospect of virtually unlimited compute and storage, it promises relief from the frustrations of maintaining legacy software and infrastructure.
But frustration, excitement and relief are all emotions. And emotions may cloud your judgement about the true benefits – and costs – of moving to the cloud. Or about the fact that in many cases it might make far more sense to keep your workloads partly, if not entirely, on-premises.
Although some organizations are truly completely cloud native – in that they were born in the cloud era and have always existed in the cloud – most organizations will have legacy infrastructure and software that cannot easily be discarded.