Cloud Challenges

Streamlining the journey

While many senior IT strategists and business leaders accept that the potential benefits of moving to a cloud model are both compelling and increasingly attainable, they are under no illusions as to the challenges facing them on this journey.

These IT decision-makers have genuine concerns around issues such as security, data governance, reliability, performance, loss of control, cultural resistance, migration and integration not to mention the difficulty of selecting trusted cloud partners with the necessary capabilities, experience and market stability to support their specific ambitions.

They often struggle to navigate through the disparate options for example, when and where to use public, private or hybrid cloud solutions. Many need to assess what steps they have to take to enable the progressive switch to cloud and the modernization of their legacy IT environment as part of that journey.

Cloud also means IT and the business need to work even more closely together to ensure cloud adoption is not counter-productive so that business units can self-provision cloud services while IT takes care of related risks factors, integration issues and service-level considerations.

While some cloud providers seek to play down such concerns, Fujitsu appreciates that the only path to cloud success is to address the challenges head-on. By bringing our technical and business expertise to bear, we take as much risk as possible out of moving to the cloud for our customers. We recognize that the pace and precise direction of travel will vary from sector to sector, from organization to organization, depending on individual business circumstances, competitive pressures and strategic priorities.

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