[HIB]Rackspace cloud chief predicts enterprise caution

Most large enterprises won't move their established applications on to cloud services for years but are embracing the technology for new projects, the head of Rackspace's cloud business said on Thursday at the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco. "The idea of an IT department prioritizing taking their SAP and putting it in the cloud, it's just not the way IT (departments) think," said Lew Moorman, Rackspace's chief strategy officer and president, cloud. "The SAP [in their enterprise] works. I think mostly they just don't touch it," he said. The number of new projects in the cloud will far outweigh the large-scale migrations, he said.

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