While organizations overall have become increasingly comfortable moving to the cloud, healthcare organizations remain on the lower end of the cloud maturity curve. That’s a key takeaway from a CDW survey of over 900 IT decision-makers across multiple industries, including healthcare.
Per the CDW survey, 63% of healthcare IT leaders say the biggest benefits from the public cloud are greater reliability and recovery capabilities. But as organizations come further along on their cloud journeys, they are realizing benefits beyond disaster recovery or even cost savings. These more mature benefits can include availability and the “amazing feature” of scalability, says Khalid Turk, chief healthcare IT officer for Santa Clara County in San Jose, Calif.
Still, healthcare organizations are more likely than organizations in other industries to engage in cloud repatriation, or moving workloads back on-premises after migrating them to the cloud. To succeed on their cloud journeys, healthcare organizations must start with a cloud migration roadmap aligned with their business goals. The roadmap determines which workloads to move to the cloud and how best to manage them. Here are some criteria to consider.
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