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White Paper citrix.com Lessons Learned from Hundreds of Production Cloud Deployments Top 5 considerations when selecting a cloud platform

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Businesses today are looking to reap the benefits of private clouds such as efficiency, flexibility, scalability and cost savings, and have come to realize that transforming IT to agile and efficient cloud services is a strategic priority – no longer a matter of if, but when... and how. Once the decision to move an IT environment to the cloud is made, the next logical questions businesses face are how to get there and where to start.

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