How likely is it that you're still driving your first car, or living in your first house? Not very likely. In our personal lives, we migrate to different solutions based on our needs at that time. Nobody expects us to buy a car from the same manufacturer or continue to live in the same neighborhood, just because that's where we started." In the same way, most organizations in the past few years have invested in the private or public cloud but now find themselves wanting to move from one cloud strategy or …

Over the last few years, cloud computing and infrastructure—the delivery of business services to users over a network—has taken the IT world by storm. There's hardly an enterprise IT department that hasn't already adopted (or isn't currently considering) a move to cloud-based delivery models, and for good reason: the cloud offers a solution to IT management, resource, and cost challenges facing organizations today. But now that the hype has died down, it's become easier to evaluate how the promise …