As with situation you describe with your organization, I think "edge" IT like CDN will be migrated to cloud far before core IT such as ERP or CRM. That doesn't mean that it isn't starting to happen in some companies, particularly medium-sized ones that are more price sensitive.
As for SOX, it's a definite issue but we see that European Union privacy laws and corporate regulation are a major problem for storing data, particularly about customers, if it's outside of certain geographical boundaries. Like HIPAA and the cloud (which I covered in my previous comment to this post), there are ways of making it work and many cloud vendors provide the features to comply with fairly strict security and encryption requirements in these settings.
The bottom line: Mission-critical apps are quite suitable for the cloud yet while SOX compliance is something that's achievable with some work and it's worth investigating the issues now while you have time.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Best,
Dion Hinchcliffe
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