Businesses Must Step Carefully into the Cloud
April 22, 2014
Grazed from BizTechMagazine. Author: Matt McLaughlin.
A move to cloud computing is a marathon, not a sprint, so any organization considering the cloud should take a slow approach, says Shane Zide, CDW’s sales leader for cloud and managed solutions. Businesses considering the cloud should take care to determine what they need and the best way to get it. “The cloud isn’t one size fits all,” Zide says. “It is very customizable, actually, in terms of what you want and what your comfort level is.”
The different flavors of cloud — private, public and hybrid — offer different benefits. For example, a business may want to keep its most sensitive data and applications in a private cloud while moving enterprise functions such as email to a public-cloud provider. A key benefit to cloud computing is that outsourcing IT operations to a service provider allows an organization to focus on its core mission…
“If you make and sell hammers, you are supposed to be helping the business sell more hammers,” Zide says. “You are not in the infrastructure business anymore. And that’s how IT has changed.”…
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