Cloud computing in enterprise environments
July 30, 2014
Grazed from TechPageOne. Author: Ian Clatworthy.
Dell works with a number of specialist industries, and it’s often a niche industry that drives innovation or at least indicates where we should concentrate our efforts in product development. Regardless of industry, the need to embrace cloud computing has been an overriding truth among businesses of all sizes. It’s unrealistic to think that all businesses will have the same needs. Maybe, some years from now, providing cloud services to businesses will be much simpler because adaptation will reach market saturation levels, but right now, businesses are only placing what they need to in the cloud.
The change in cloud adoption rate
Cloud computing obviously offers many benefits to businesses who are conscious of the need to improve their bottom line. Low initial spend and ease of growth are quite revolutionary in the world of IT. Just a few years ago, it was impossible to imagine that one could deploy and install software for and IT setup of a small office of 20 administrative staff in just one day. Today, businesses are able to do that for a staff of 200 employees or more, simply by connecting a room of thin clients to an Internet connection. As new businesses avoid time-consuming and costly IT setups, cloud adaptation will increase at an almost exponential rate…
Knowing what works in the cloud for your business
The fact that new businesses are far more likely to adopt cloud-based Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is purely based on cost and convenience. With that in mind, some businesses have applications running on legacy platforms that will not transfer to the cloud without considerable investment. That makes a transition to cloud computing highly impractical for some businesses. At some point, businesses will need to compromise and decide where they can gain the most from cloud computing without disrupting their operations, but also ensure they adopt enough of the highly agile method of computing in the cloud to remain competitive…
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