The one-off cost is very high, and there is higher ongoing maintenance cost as well. Most organizations are moving to the cloud, because it in general makes more economic sense.
I'm really not seeing most organizations moving to the cloud. It only makes sense economically for the smallest companies/organisations that can't afford maintenance costs. Most bigger ones won't risk the loss of their core data and a lot can't go to the cloud for various reasons like legality, speed and redundancy.
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The one-off cost is very high, and there is higher ongoing maintenance cost as well. Most organizations are moving to the cloud, because it in general makes more economic sense.
I'm really not seeing most organizations moving to the cloud. It only makes sense economically for the smallest companies/organisations that can't afford maintenance costs. Most bigger ones won't risk the loss of their core data and a lot can't go to the cloud for various reasons like legality, speed and redundancy.
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