Cloud Chains – Integrating beyond boundaries

Grazed from Computing. Author: Editorial Staff.

If cloud computing manages to evolve to where it should do, the end result for organisations is a mixed environment of internal and external IT platforms that stretch beyond their direct control into the value chain of suppliers and customers, and beyond to others providing services along a complex business-to-business (B2B) chain.

Historically, organisations have been able to exert a level of control through ownership of the IT stack from hardware through operating systems to applications, and have been able to ring-fence their systems through identifying where the responsibilities of their organisation ended, generally at a point defined by the use of a firewall…

However, more innovative organisations have found that, to be able to be more competitive in their markets, they need to be able to exchange information in a more dynamic and open manner across these extended value chains. However, such information flows still have to be secure and auditable – and this is where even the most innovative organisations begin to struggle…

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