As I mentioned before, migrating to the cloud it doesn’t have to be hard or expensive. When migrating to the cloud, there are many options including on-ramping solutions which leverage server templates provided by cloud providers; automation tools to rebuild apps into a provider’s stack; migration attempts to move servers as-is.

For businesses both offline and online, the new way of doing business is mandatory.

Ben Franklin told us that the only things certain in life are death and taxes. An American politician named Ruth Ann Miner suggested that there is a third certainty; that is, trash. 

Trash is a subjective term of course. If you disagree, I challenge you to accompany my wife in search of treasure as she peruses garage sales.  One’s trash is another’s treasure, they say.  

The principle applies to Information Technology as well.  One person’s IT trash is another’s valuable asset.

I’ve been harping on security as a weakness in corporate America for many years.  Of course, every technology pundit has; it’s an easy target.  However, my contention is not that our security apparatus is not robust enough or that we are somehow more likely to be hacked because of a lack of technological prowess; far from it.  I believe that even with the technologies that we have, the security and secrecy of our most valuable assets should be something we can count on.