Freed of the burden of managing physical data centers and dealing with hardware failures, network outages and tedious chores like putting servers into racks, IT leaders at companies that have migrated to the cloud say their teams can spend more time getting new apps into users' hands. Perhaps most important, when a company's technology infrastructure is largely in the cloud, IT can focus on the company's business strategy and build tools that help users carry out the mission.
Of course, a cloud migration doesn't necessarily mean the end of IT involvement in on-site systems altogether. IT still needs ensure that cloud-based systems are secure, for example, and manage integration of hosted systems and those that have to be kept on-premises. But as the cartoon in the August issue of our digital magazine emphasizes, a move to the cloud still leaves IT teams much more flexible than they would be if they had to manage physical data centers.
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