Cloud Computing – The Real Story Is About Business Strategy, Not Technology

July 6, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Tony Pagano.

It’s mid-2015, and it’s clear that the cloud paradigm is here to stay. Its services are growing exponentially and, at this time, it’s a fluid model with no steady state on the horizon. As such, adopting cloud computing has been surprisingly slow and seen more IT leaders, as well as business leaders, try to get their footing on what can otherwise be described as a very slippery slope.

Businesses are involved in a struggle to transform their firms into innovative and agile organizations, as well as gain a competitive advantage in their respective industry via a collaborated effort between the IT department and its internal business units. And this is impacting all types of enterprises…

Further, the phenomenon isn’t isolated to businesses that typically just “consume” technology, rather it’s also impacting the producers of IT technologies and services. So here’s a good place to begin. Embrace and evangelize the following simple definition of “The Cloud.”…

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