Agility is king for cloud value, but ROI is harder to measure

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

A few years ago, we defined the value of cloud computing in terms of opex versus capex. These days, most people define the value of cloud around agility. Why the change? Because if you define the value of cloud as the ability to avoid buying hardware and software — the capex-versus-opex view — you can’t make cloud computing compelling from a cost standpoint.

However, if you define the value of cloud as the ability to make your business more agile, you quickly get to the value numbers you need. I’ve been shouting about the value of agility and the cloud for years, but I didn’t see the view become common in the IT or vendor community until recently. Now, cloud providers are all about agility, and they use it to sell the public cloud to enterprises…

Likewise, enterprises now understand that value metrics exist in agility, and they’re getting good at defining the worth of agility for internal business cases…

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