What the enterprise can learn from Google’s decision to go “all-in” on cloud
May 15, 2015
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Caroline Donnelly.
Google has spent the best part of a decade telling firms to ditch on-premise productivity tools and use its cloud-based Google Apps suite instead. So, the news that it’s moving all of the company’s in-house IT assets to the cloud may have surprised some.
Surely a company that spends so much time talking up the benefits of cloud computing should have ditched on-premise technology years ago, right? Not necessarily, and with so many enterprises wrestling with the what, when and how much questions around cloud, the fact Google has only worked out the answers for itself now is sure to be heartening stuff for enterprise cloud buyers to hear…
Reserving the right
The search giant has been refreshingly open in the past with its misgivings about entrusting the company’s corporate data to the cloud (other people’s clouds, that is) because of security concerns. Instead, it prefers employees to use its online storage, collaboration and productivity tools, and has shied away from letting them use services that could potentially send sensitive corporate information to the datacentres of its competitors…
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