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With on-premise solutions come great control. You can house everything in your office in a locked-down closet. You can even hire a security guard to protect your servers. But you’re also stuck with expensive maintenance, costly upgrades and inflexible hardware. When something breaks, you’re stuck with the downtime, unhappy customers and repair costs too. IT leaders are well-aware of the cloud’s user experience benefits. Even still, the decision to transition systems, even partially, can be daunting. The big questions? Security, reliability, uptime and data ownership. When customers depend on your systems, you can’t take any chances. Fortunately, you can minimize…

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