Unified cloud computing management sparks agility

Grazed from TechPageOne.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Business agility. It’s the true driver of cloud computing adoption — and it trumps efficiency, cost and the other things people talk about.  For example, when marketers sign up for Typepad online, they do so because the technology enables them to solve problems on their own timetables — not those of a centralized IT organization.

Likewise, when developers start virtual machines in the Amazon cloud because it takes six weeks to get similar resources from central IT, they do so because they need the virtual machines now — not because of how much less expensive the public cloud might appear…


Nonetheless, IT and operational teams must protect organization-wide governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) as well as data security. Question is, how can enterprises capitalize on a cloud computing–based IT service delivery model without creating bottlenecks to business agility?…

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