Cloud Hosting: Look Beyond Cost Savings By @Kevin_Jackson | @CloudExpo #Cloud

Is your company struggling with the idea of using “cloud hosting” in order to save money?
Truth be known, using cost savings as the primary reason for moving to cloud will almost guarantee failure. Some reasons that typically lead to cloud computing costing more include:
Building and migrating to a private cloud, which will almost always cost more than staying in a traditional data center;
Migrating legacy applications that weren’t designed to operate in a virtualized environment or are tied to very specific environments run on older operating systems or require out-of-date drivers;

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