Cloud Computing: 7 Reasons Why IT Won’t Disappear Anytime Soon
June 22, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Raj Sabhlok.
Companies are moving more and more of their IT functions online in the form of publicly-available cloud computing services, software-as-a-service applications and the like. That’s not really a big surprise. Where the controversies, or at least the questions, arise are in the company’s IT department.
For instance, does the rise of the public cloud render the enterprise IT department obsolete? With so much IT activity performed by third-party SaaS and cloud service providers, what activities are left for the company’s internal IT team? And what does the future look like for enterprise IT? Spoiler alert: The answers are “no,” “plenty” and “cloudy.” Let me explain…
IT teams will, no doubt, see a reduction or elimination of certain responsibilities. But I’d argue that in the big IT picture, most of those duties hold relatively low value yet consume big chunks of time. I mean, how much time does your IT department spend on the installation, configuration and maintenance of the on-premise hardware and software systems used to run applications onsite? You recover every minute of that time when your apps run online because those chores are now handled by your cloud or SaaS provider…
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