What should your customers look out for if they're making big cloud moves this year? Here's a roundup of thought leadership that can help boost your knowledge and how you might advise your customers about the hybrid cloud and what to do about the data center.

WORLDCOM EXCHANGE (WEI): 6 mistakes to avoid when implementing hybrid cloud

As confidence in the public cloud grows, businesses are mapping their migration strategies. Joshua Satrape's list focuses on costs, SLAs and documentation.

COMPUCOM: Moving to the cloud? How to dismantle the data center

Start with asset disposition and plan the schedule, Joseph Geletei writes in this post.

ONENECK IT SOLUTIONS: No matter how thick your cloud is, you can't go 'all in'

Not all applications are suited to the cloud, this post says, noting that between 20 and 40 percent of all business applications lack a platform for deployment in the public cloud.

CDW: Migrating to a cloud data center creates new duties for IT and leadership

Gary Gauthier and Chris Bishop address the data center efficiencies that come with a cloud migration, and how they could impact the workloads of key players.