PC for business: Labor costs can make up 50% of public cloud migration, is it worth it?

Tuesday 10 May 2016

Labor costs can make up 50% of public cloud migration, is it worth it?

A new Forrester report shows that people, not cloud services, are the biggest cost of migrating legacy apps to the public cloud.

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