5 areas CIOs must examine before moving to the cloud
January 29, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Vijay Sethi.
Cloud computing is about delivering massively scalable IT-enabled capabilities, as service to external customers using Internet technologies. Instead of saying that Cloud computing is a hyped tech-trend, I will say it is a buzz word today and still many service providers actually interchangeably use SaaS and Cloud Computing in their discussions.
Not all SaaS solutions leverage cloud-based computing and cloud computing is not another term for SaaS. In fact it is a broad technological concept where some types of SaaS offerings could qualify for to be included under cloud computing. That is, if the IT application being delivered under SaaS concept is one which is highly scalable; it could qualify for being considered as a cloud computing application…
Will Cloud Computing really take off? I think yes, it is poised to grow – and not just private cloud but public cloud also. There are lot of people who say that large companies will take private cloud route while SMEs will take public cloud route. But I feel that even large companies will benefit a lot from public cloud route and many enterprises have already ventured out on this path. However, as I see today, before taking a decision whether to move forward on cloud computing or not, each CIO has to evaluate certain key areas, which are as follows:…
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