Your company currently hosts a vast array of applications in a local data center, but cost cutting measures within the organization are forcing them to reevaluate this practice. The data center, in its current incarnation, is no longer fiscally feasible, and downsizing both the hardware and staff will leave it unequipped to host its current portfolio of applications. An edict has arrived from the Chief Technology Officer: It’s time to move to the cloud.

The executive team needs to better understand which applications are good candidates to migrate to a cloud-based service and which need to remain in the local, soon-to-be-smaller data center.

Explains the major benefits and risks of cloud computing.

Makes recommendations based on lessons learned from other companies that sought to make the same transition

Lists five applications used by an organization with which you are familiar. Explain whether each is suitable for cloud computing; justify your answers by specifying the characteristics of the application that make it particularly suited or unsuited for cloud delivery.