Chad Epstein, Cloud Migration Practice Lead at Synthesis.

Cloud has truly become the technology du jour, with cloud usage having grown to 90% of respondents in a recent study, and 48% saying they plan to migrate half or more of their apps into the cloud in 2022. Indeed, moving to the cloud is increasingly seen as a no-brainer, and CIOs are often finding themselves being mandated to move into the cloud by the board or the executive team.

But what we hear less about is that a startlingly high percentage of cloud migrations fail—according to one study, up to 74% of respondents had to reverse a cloud migration back into their on-premise environment.