Issue link: https://epubs.iltanet.org/i/98946
ILTA's 2012 Financial Management Poll Results investments from on-premise-based applications to cloud-enabled platforms. Coupled with the need to securely link offices, link remote employees across multiple devices and platforms, and connect to clients and vendors through secure clouds, the paradigm shift of cloud-based technologies is here to stay. public, private or hybrid clouds, it is essential for CIOs to assess four critical factors: Your Network Strategy In order to ensure network performance and reliability, the IT department must gain a clear understanding of the elements that impact application performance. These include latency, jitter, bandwidth and quality of service. On the fault tolerance front, the IT team must understand the businesses requirements for uptime and redundancy, and the business's tolerance for downtime. The challenge of building a sound cloud strategy is the responsibility of every CIO. The increased adoption of cloud applications in law firms has made the underlying network strategy all the more mission-critical, and the process of ensuring the best architecture and support systems of paramount importance. As applications migrate from the LAN to • Network performance • Reliability • Fault tolerance • Security ILTA White Paper 29