Over half of firms in a recent said their top priority around cloud computing is "readiness", rather than full migration.

IT infrastructure services firm Computacenter questioned over 200 IT decision makers at the recent Cloud Computing World Forum. Overall, 51 percent of organisations said their overriding priority this year was making their IT infrastructure "cloud-ready".

The survey found that 28 percent of organisations are looking to migrate many of their workloads to the cloud this year, but a more cautious 72 percent were focusing on testing individual cloud functions, such as email, testing/development and hosting.

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