The reasons for cloud adoption are many, and business leaders are looking to it to bring value to their organizations through increased agility and competitive responsiveness. Still, enterprise-wide cloud implementation is no easy task for IT departments, especially when faced with budgets and resources focused on maintenance of their current server environments.

While the answer sometimes seems to be outsourcing cloud to a third-party, one size does not fit all and cloud does not answer all IT's problems. This is not always so, and the IBM thought leadership white paper "Choice and control" illustrates its considerations for cloud - which see businesses mix public, private and hybrid clouds to meet business needs where cloud provides benefit, and better retain control.

The white paper helps readers to chart their own unique cloud strategy and, if required, know how to choose the right cloud partner. Whether looking to cloud to optimize, innovate or disrupt download and read "Choice and control" to better understand the questions to ask of yourself and your partners when looking at migration to cloud solutions.