Cloud computing represents a shift in how computing resources and technologies are architected and managed. It may be interpreted to mean enterprise-grade control of computing resources through near real-time policy-based management of computing resources, or it could simply refer to the significant shift in Internet application architectures that it enables. Either way, cloud technologies offer benefits today that can be leveraged in the deployment of many enterprise applications.
Migration to the cloud will not be immediate because of important security, privacy and regulatory issues that enterprises need to sort through before full migration to the cloud. However, cloud technologies can be provisioned today to gain experience with a cloud-oriented way of organizing and accessing digital technology resources. This may include development of a migration