The cloud is still in its early days as a computing environment, with new technologies and vendors evolving rapidly to address the many issues involved in the migration and connectivity between traditional environments and cloud services. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Ellen Rubin discusses five best practices enterprises should follow before they can safely move their applications to the cloud. – Before moving enterprise applications to the cloud, you need to be sure that your expectations are realistic and your objectives match what the cloud can deliver. The following are five best practices based on my experiences working with enterprise customers from their initial exploration of cloud p…