Cloud Computing Is Popular, But Not Ready For Prime Time, Survey Finds

July 19, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Forbes.   Author: Joe McKendrick.

I’ve never liked the term “As a Service,” not only because it sounds awkward when associated with various offerings (Software as a Service, Database as a Service, Business Processes as s Service, and so on), but also because it attempts to pigeonhole discrete functions that often overlap or are fuzzily defined.
 
Monikers aside, it appears most organizations have only been plodding along on the road to the “As-a-Service” wonderland anyway. Sure, there are some highly visible business success stories in the market — Amazon Web Services for servers and storage, Salesforce for customer relationship management, NetSuite for enterprise resource planning, Google for email and collaboration, Microsoft 365 for office productivity applications, and so forth…

 

In my last post, I discussed the growing cloud infrastructure and application markets, sized at $33 billion and $106 billion for this year, respectively. While cloud is growing gangbusters, it may be still at the periphery of enterprises, versus transforming core mission-critical applications and functions…

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