IT just scratching surface of cloud computing technology

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Tom Nolle.

If you’re an IT manager or executive, you’ve probably started your cloud journey. You’ve likely migrated applications to the cloud, or deployed cloud as your primary hosting environment. And now, you think you’re a cloud veteran. Well, you’re just getting started. Few users have discovered the full impact of cloud — but every business could benefit by doing so.

First, the cloud isn’t an IT strategy — it’s an application architecture and a new computing model. For decades, IT struggled to get closer to the user. Today, cloud computing technology makes that possible with a global computing fabric that can touch any smartphone, tablet, laptop or wearable device. But since we’ve never seen anything like cloud, IT has yet to fully exploit it…

To feel the full cloud impact, users need to do three things: think in terms of hierarchical processes; build applications around events; and turn mobile devices into virtual humans…

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