At first glance, a headline like that sounds lofty (no pun intended). You are, after all, focusing on the cloud. You begin to wonder just what could go wrong (a lot).
The thing is, cloud deployment planning and migration management isn’t as straightforward as you may think. Despite clear-cut directives such as “move 25% of business applications to the cloud” or “cloud first,” when you start actually doing it, you find out that cloud migration isn't that easy.
The kind of business model you have will matter. What cloud deployment models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, hybrid, etc.) you use will matter. What criteria and KPIs you choose to decide which applications you deploy to the cloud and how your architecture inventory is organized to execute on that will matter. And how your business cohorts feel about migrating applications to the cloud – that will absolutely matter.