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Alot has been rightly made of the cost-savings benefits of cloud computing .
But if that ’ s why you ’ re considering moving your applications , hardware , development tools — or any combination thereof — into the cloud , you ’ re going to be in for a surprise .
Here ’ s the thing : Cloud computing saves organizations a lot of money by allowing them to shift the cost of maintaining hardware , databases , and applications to the tech provider experts . It also forces companies to stop customizing software to suit outdated , idiosyncratic business processes , and at the same time it reduces the cost of supporting that software — an activity that often costs more than the original software itself did .
But if that were the only benefit of moving to the cloud , it would barely be worth the effort .
Moving all that technology out of your own data center and onto your tech provider ’ s stack isn ’ t without its own costs .
And here ’ s another thing about that cost savings : Once you ’ re done with the shift to the cloud , those savings are banked and part of the new normal . In other words , management will throw you only one
176 June 2016