Moving a meaningful portion—not necessarily all—of your organization’s existing IT assets to the cloud is considered a “migration.” A migration might consist of moving a single data center, a collection of data centers or some other portfolio of systems that is larger than a single application. The decision to migrate to the cloud can be driven by several factors, including: data center lease expiration, required hardware upgrades, software license renewals, location requirements to meet regulatory compliance, global market expansion, increased developer productivity or the need for a standard architecture