Cloud Computing: Ready For the Downpour
November 27, 2012
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Radhika Nallayam.
Years from today, when historians tell our children the story of IT circa 2012, the shift to opex models is going to be an important milestone and they will point to cloud computing as the incendiary that lit the first flame.
Like many historians, they will be wrong; opex models have existed before cloud computing. But it’s hard to blame them for thinking that. While the cloud isn’t the first opex model, it’s definitely served as a tipping point for the opex-IT movement. It’s what fired CFO imaginations as they dreamed of a world where sunk IT costs were a thing of the past…
Ace Data Devices wants to be part of that future. And to do that it’s made sure it’s changed with the times, by introducing a cloud version of its storage and back-up offerings. The good news? It’s making money…
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