Beating the Competition by Becoming Cloud-Centric

Grazed from CloudWedge. Author: Hadley Jones.

At the beginning, cloud computing was the promise of additional, more affordable IT resources for many organizations. Flexible, scalable and pay-as-you-went, cloud computing was the ideal add-on to cope with data growth and in-house servers that were struggling with workloads. On top of the infrastructure resources being offered, providers also created innovative business applications. IT power that had hitherto been reserved for only the largest corporations became available to the mid-sized and the small businesses too. Now the opportunity is open to beat the competition by not just bolting these online resources onto what you already have, but by directly basing your business in the cloud.

Not Just Cost Advantage, but Strategic Too

While cloud computing can be a better IT solution per se, there’s much more to be gained too. Cloud and collaboration go together. Opening up business processes to third parties (with appropriate security, of course) can reinforce partnerships, cement customer loyalty and increase business resilience…

Using cloud resources that can be more rapidly configured, modified and moved around allows a business to be more agile and react faster to changing market conditions. Those who are still undecided about the value of the cloud might want to think about what their competitors are doing – especially smaller enterprises that can marshal large cloud resources for lightning fast entries into markets and customer accounts…

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