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How to Plan a Cloud Migration When Your Team Is Already Stretched The timing of a cloud migration is almost never ideal.

Moving from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud is one of the highest-risk IT projects a business can undertake, because the window for error is narrow and the consequences of a poorly planned migration are visible to everyone.

The Disaster Recovery Plan That Most SMBs Don't Have Until It's Too Late Most small and mid-sized businesses do not have a disaster recovery plan. Most should have backups, but few will have tested those backups.

Most technology decisions are reversible with enough time and budget. Software platforms can be replaced, processes can be redesigned, and vendor relationships can be terminated. But infrastructure decisions are different.

The default answer for infrastructure decisions in the past several years has been: move everything to the cloud.

  Cloud services were supposed to make technology more cost-effective for smaller businesses. (And they still can, with the right conditions.) But for a significant number of SMBs, the cloud has become a growing line item that delivers a fraction of the value it is priced for.

For most of the last decade, the direction was clear: get off on-premise infrastructure, move everything to the cloud, and never look back. That narrative has not collapsed, but it has been significantly complicated. In 2026, the question is no longer whether to use the cloud.

Cloud bills usually grow in one direction by default – up. New services get added, workloads scale up during a busy period and never scale back down, and licenses renew automatically.

How to Build a Cloud Strategy That Grows With You Instead of Against You Most organizations do not have a cohesive cloud strategy, but rather, a collection of cloud decisions made over time.

Remote workers are often unaware of the security behaviors that differ between their home environment and a managed corporate one.