Cloud Sherpas reviews the possible technology drivers for moving your organization to the cloud, including what they entail, how they rank in importance among enterprises today and why identifying these drivers early on is so important to cloud success.

1. What’s Driving
your IT team
to the Cloud?

2. Why are you going cloud?
identifying and prioritizing
your technology drivers is essential
to cloud strategy success

3. Agility
Cost
Assurance
3 Possible Business Drivers
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2)
3)

4. Agility
Increasing the pace at which IT
can work to keep up with rising
business demands
66 %
of organizations rank agility
as the top factor driving
cloud adoption
Source: “2015 Enterprise Cloud Report.” Cloud Sherpas. April 2015

5. 52%
of organizations report achieving this
goal since adopting cloud technology
Source: “2015 Enterprise Cloud Report.” Cloud Sherpas. April 2015
Agility
Moving to the cloud frees IT from worrying
about traditional operations, which is why

6. Cost
Reducing the IT footprint,
reducing technology costs and
restructuring capital
expenditures
56%
Source: “2015 Enterprise Cloud Report.” Cloud Sherpas. April 2015
of organizations rank
reducing IT expenses as an
important factor driving
their move to the cloud

7. Cost
Because of the cloud spreads out costs
over time and reduces IT maintenance
requirements,
39%
Source: “2015 Enterprise Cloud Report.” Cloud Sherpas. April 2015
of organizations report reduces in IT
expenses since going cloud

8. Assurance
Hands traditional IT
responsibilities (disaster
recovery, protecting against
breaches) to experienced
third parties
15 %
of organizations express
concerns about losing
control over IT
Source: “2015 Enterprise Cloud Report.” Cloud Sherpas. April 2015

9. But the majority of IT organizations see the
value of a more experienced vendor handling
these responsibilities as
Assurance
94%
of organizations report improvements in
security since moving to the cloud
Source: “Why Cloud Adoption Happens in 2015.” QuoteColo. 2015.

10. Knowing that the cloud provides multiple
technology benefits, it’s no wonder that
IT Wins in the Cloud
73%
of organizations feel that IT benefits the
most from cloud adoption
Source: “2015 Enterprise Cloud Report.” Cloud Sherpas. April 2015

11. What’s Your Top Driver?
Determine which drivers will take
precedence at the start of your journey
to ensure a successful
cloud transformation

12. Ready to learn more?
Download the White Paper
Behind Every Cloud, There’s a Reason:
Analyzing the 6 Possible Business &
Technology Drivers for Going Cloud