The notion of digitalizing business processes and customer experiences has become a matter of “when”, rather than “if”. Nearly every large organization has begun leveraging cloud services as part of a digital transformation, whether that is to reduce their IT costs, build innovative new applications, or better support their global workforces without the major undertaking of deploying new data center facilities. While each organization approaches their cloud adoption journey differently, mission-critical applications are often among the last a given organization moves into the cloud. But make no mistake: migrating mission-critical line-of-business workloads to the cloud should be a key component of any enterprise’s transformation aspirations.