Cloud migration is an obvious path for most businesses today, but that was not entirely the case five years ago. In the wake of a fresh batch of Federal regulations, many agencies scrambled to close data centers and struggled to better understand how to integrate cloud computing into their business models. For one international development agency, the process of cloud migration began with a well-designed Enterprise Architecture (EA), which allowed it to slowly ease into the cloud while complying with Federal mandates. So how did this agency, supporting several thousand employees worldwide, hit its cost savings and optimization targets? The blueprint was in their EA strategy, but IT consolidation played a critical role, as well as the Agency’s implementation of a Cloud First com

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