Retail giant Nordstrom provides a useful example for anyone struggling with how to adopt IaaS cloud computing services such as virtual machines, storage, and cloud-based application hosting.

As cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure have matured, more businesses are comfortable using these public cloud tools. But there’s still a big question as to the best approach is to implement a cloud strategy within a business.

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