India, April 23 -- Worldwide spending on digital transformation is set to reach nearly $2 trillion by 2002, according to International Data Corp., which is a significant piece of an IT budget. However, companies still fall victim to mistakes that wreak havoc across all areas of business operations trying to go digital, including for cloud migration. Migrating to the cloud is a big undertaking, both financially and culturally, for organizations of all sizes. The following are five common pitfalls that can plague organizations when migrating to the cloud, and how to avoid them.

A cloud migration is, in its simplest form, just a change. But of course, it's much more than that. It touches every aspect of an enterprise. Like any big move, the s...