Migrating IT systems and infrastructure to a private or public cloud can be a daunting task even for the most seasoned IT professionals. At the same time, this challenge provides a great opportunity to revise, rethink, and improve an organization’s IT architecture.

The most common strategic drivers behind moving a data center to the cloud include reducing capital expenditures, decreasing ongoing costs, improving scalability and elasticity, improving time-to-market, and attaining improvements in both security and compliance.