"We're still in the beginning stages of cloud adoption, which is not to say we won't move more of our mission-critical applications to the cloud," Beggs says. "We're starting with the ones that can accept downtime if the communications infrastructure becomes an issue -- e-mail, back-office, purchasing, that sort of thing. We're centralizing some things this year, but we have to see, with some applications, things like how well they communicate across the Internet and make sure what some of the other migration issues are."