Your business needs to move some IT to the cloud to gain a competitive advantage. But how will you know if it’s ready? Is there a right time? Should you move to a public cloud or a private one, or a combination of both? What should you look for in a service provider? The CIOs at Brainstorm’s roundtable discussion say the two most important things are the applications and the user base.

Applications tend to be divided into core and non-core, with the former category normally being kept close.