Not All Clouds are Created Equal

Maybe your agency adopted cloud quickly, as soon as it became available, or maybe you cautiously watched from the sidelines.

Regardless of which camp you align with, chances are you might have experienced cloud remorse firsthand or have heard from agencies that felt it. It wasn’t so much that cloud wasn’t the right option, there was a deeper issue at play.

In his book, “The ROI Story: A Guide for IT Leaders,” author Steve Kaplan explains that some enterprises make incorrect assumptions about overall cost due to the lower upfront capital expense of public cloud. Yet capital expense is merely one element of the larger equation, and IT decision-makers should do a sound financial analysis that accounts for all of the factors that add up to the true cost of an IT investment.