Throughout this book, we have asserted that moving to the cloud can help enterprises lower their total cost of ownership, increase return on business investments, and improve the speed at which innovative new products and services are brought to market.
One of the underlying assumptions of our guidance has been that you, like most CIOs and IT professionals, oversee a number of long-running legacy systems that may need reworking to operate optimally in the cloud. If your enterprise is typical, it also includes data center infrastructure that can be challenging and expensive to maintain.
This book’s Prologue mentions the three activities of IT: sustain existing products and services, improve them, and introduce ...

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