{"id":3013,"date":"2012-08-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/aug\/07\/five-tips-for-cios-moving-to-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:00:00","slug":"five-tips-for-cios-moving-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/five-tips-for-cios-moving-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Five tips for CIOs moving to the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>CIOs making strategic moves to the cloud that involve core infrastructure such as productivity tools, enterprise applications or collaboration capabilities need to be prepared for a new way of thinking and operating.<\/p>\n<p>Moving to the cloud isn&rsquo;t &#8211; and shouldn&rsquo;t be &#8211; business as usual. It&rsquo;s a switch that demands fresh attitudes to procurement, accounting, project management and, more than anything, ways of working.<\/p>\n<p>This is the biggest shift in computing architecture since client\/server and inevitably there will be surprises along the way but best practices and case studies are emerging. Based on over a decade of operating with companies moving to the cloud, these can be usefully stilled down to the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Communicate<\/strong>. Any change in IT can lead to confusion. You need to have a strong business case for the Board to get buy-in at the highest levels and this support will help mute any broader &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIOs making strategic moves to the cloud that involve core infrastructure such as productivity tools, enterprise applications or collaboration capabilities need to be prepared for a new way of thinking and operating.<br \/>\nMoving to the cloud isn&rsquo;t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}