Oracle Software Chief Thomas Kurian: 10 Strategic Cloud Computing Insights
May 9, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Bob Evans.
As cloud computing surges into the mainstream of business-technology strategies and deployments, plenty of questions are still swirling around regarding security, time to value, public versus private, lock-in, cost, and more. For businesses, these questions are reasonable as cloud adoptions grow rapidly around the world and increasingly essential workloads move from their traditional on-premise home to the cloud.
For the tech industry, the novelty of specialized and niche cloud products is beginning to lose favor as businesses look to avoid the costly habits of the past: purchasing lots and lots of point solutions from lots and lots of incompatible vendors requiring lots and lots of integrators and money and time to stitch it all together…
Customers are growing tired of the tech industry’s intramural squabbles and the increasingly arcane technical trivia that are being trotted out in the absence of clear and understandable and enduring discussions of the business value of these cloud solutions (see our recent piece called The New and Dangerous Threat to Cloud Computing)…
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