Securing your journey to the Cloud. Virtualization technologies have enabled more dynamic datacenters and the potential for cost reductions on more than hardware. After building the modern datacenter, the private cloud, the next step for many customers will be to deploy public cloud services. Customers are in different stages along this journey to the cloud and meet different obstacles and objections on their way, technical issues, regulations, time pressure and emotional resistance. When cost reduction is in the area of 1/10 for virtualization and 1/100 for cloud services, why wait? Where is the problem? There are lots of benefits and future potentials in implementing private, hybrid and public cloud, but change of operation models also introduces new challenges that must be met.