In PC Today’s March issue, Christian Perry breaks down the transition into cloud computing for businesses. While organizations of all sizes are making the move into the cloud, Perry sites a recent Virtacore Systems study that showed 64 percent of IT and business professionals surveyed still don’t understand what it is. Mike Eaton, founder and CEO of cloud computing company Cloudworks, helped explain the process of migrating to a cloud provider. Here’s what he had to say:
“The time involved is dependent on the company’s preparedness and what services they are planning to migrate. Creating the customer environments in the cloud and establishing user accounts is actually pretty easy. Most cloud providers can accomplish this in a matter of hours once the customer has provided all the necessary information, including a complete user list and their associated security permissions. So for a start-up with no legacy applications or data, getting up and running in the cloud from quote to contracts to go-live can be a day or two.”