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Duh. Of course, these surveys have a tendency to be self-serving, soit's no surprise that this one concludes that your networks needupgrading before you can move to the cloud. After all, the surveywas sponsored by a networking company. But putting aside the obvious self-promotion, the broaderconclusions confirm what many of us have suspected for some timeand what anyone considering a cloud migration must understand: It'snot easy. Cloud computing is a challenge that takes longer thanmost organizations have budgeted. For example, only 5 percent of IT decision makers surveyed havebeen able to migrate at least half of their total applications tothe cloud. I'm not sure it's even that much in the world at large,given what I've seen in my travels. However, the survey states thatby 2013, that number is expected to significantly rise, as morethan one in five will migrate at least half of their totalapplications to the cloud. The survey also captures the difficulty through humor, withconclusions such as, "More than one-quarter said they could trainfor a marathon or grow a mullet in a shorter period of time than itwould take to migrate their company's applications to the cloud" or"nearly one-quarter of IT decision makers said that, over the nextsix months, they are more likely to see a UFO, a unicorn, or aghost before they see their company's cloud migration starting andfinishing." The core reason for the difficulty is, of course, the fact thatmoving to the cloud is a platform-migration problem -- in this casefrom traditional systems to private and public clouds. IT prosalready know migrations are always problematic, especially ifyou're considering business-critical systems. But why businesseshaven't equated cloud migration to every other migration is amystery, perhaps the result of "silver bullet" sales claims byvendors. What makes the migration to the cloud even more difficult is thelack of information about the process. Many new cloud users arelost in a sea of hype-driven desire to move to cloud computing,without many proven best practices and metrics. I suspect we're seeing the start of the pain, but I believe thingswill improve as we learn how to work through the problems ofmigrating to the cloud. I've already started growing my mullet. This article, " This just in: Cloud computing is hard and takes a long time ," originally appeared at InfoWorld.com . Read more of David Linthicum's Cloud Computing blog and track the latest developments in cloud computing at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter . The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Kitchen Cabinet Skirting Manufacturer , China Skirting Boards Profiles, and more. For more , please visit Kitchen Cupboard Skirting today!
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