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Is your organization caught in the cloud investment trap?

When it comes to the benefits of migrating to the cloud, few organizations still need to be convinced. But while businesses might see the potential of cloud to deliver these outcomes, realizing them is another matter.

So why are senior IT leaders, rather than seeing benefits, actually spending more, finding less predictability on their spend, and struggling to realize business value?

Discover in this deep-diving e-book why too many organizations aren’t maximizing their cloud investments, and why you may need a new approach to drive value and efficiency.

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    As enterprises seek to modernize their IT infrastructure by plotting to move their business-critical workloads and applications to the cloud, integration challenges are likely to abound and take many forms.  For instance, CIOs pursuing a hybrid cloud strategy will need to ensure interoperability exists between their cloud-based workloads and their on-premise environments, and the same principle will apply to organisations that are intent on pursuing a multi-cloud strategy too.

    This 33-page EGuide seeks to shine a light on all various forms of cloud integration challenges, alongside some of the approaches enterprises have taken to addressing them.

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