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Lift & Extend Pragmatic Keys to Establish a Virtuous Circle for your Cloud Adoption Strategy

January 5, 2019

While a few large companies like Johnson & Johnson got the rid of all their Mainframe-based applications and expect to run more applications in the Cloud than they currently do on their own infrastructure, the great majority of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations are still stuck at the beginning of the journey. If these large shops have initiated their move to the Cloud to reduce infrastructure costs, they’ll soon be confronted with technological, cultural and psychological hurdles which may hinder them to take full advantage – cost reduction, but also business value – of the Cloud.

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Lift & Extend Pragmatic Keys to Establish a Virtuous Circle for your Cloud Adoption Strategy