Government and private agencies are now shifting their computing operations to the cloud. This has been accelerated by the huge advantages that the cloud has over legacy IT because of its effectiveness, cost efficiency, scalability, and performance. However, various cloud computing issues still haunt its users. These challenges are mostly associated with the increased levels of complexity that demand that the CIO identifies the right vendor for the applications to run on and the features available from the stated vendor. These are some of the most important issues you need to address when planning to move your operations to the cloud.

If that sounds like the title to a science fiction thriller, then wait until you hear the latest news coming out of the Technology sector happening right now. IBM is currently offering quantum computing in a 5-qubit and a 20-qubit version as a cloud service. Banking and Financial big names Barclays and JPMorgan Chase have seized that opportunity for themselves and jumped on board to help their investors hunt for profits.

Spending on healthcare has skyrocketed globally in the last few decades. Between 2000 and 2016 alone, health expenditure in the US had doubled to nearly $3.3 billion. A sizeable chunk of this astronomical number is made up of administrative costs, averaging at 31%. As innovations in technology continue to offer solutions for real-world problems, cloud computing systems are single-handedly revolutionizing global healthcare. According to a report by West Monroe Partners, the health care industry is farthest along in cloud adoption, with the surveyed healthcare organizations housing almost 50% of their data and infrastructure in the cloud.