Migration to the cloud has significant consequences for some of these businesses with a short-term focus, as this only leads to long-term pain. Hence, this short-sighted approach to the cloud prevents them from grasping a significant share of the value the cloud could bring to their organization.
When IT departments migrate a set of applications, potentially the easiest workloads, to the cloud without a clear cloud strategy and solid architecture, companies then face unexpected costs to recover the damage they create, such as increasing headcount to hire cloud engineers and architects.
Putting together a solid foundation and gradually building on top of it helps businesses prevent undesired consequences and expenses and makes the digital transformation of organizations seamless and sustainable.