Cloud computing: the (open) secret of success

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Editorial Staff.

“One out of five organisations have discovered a secret source of competitive differentiation. It allows them to serve customers in new ways and re-imagine their business models. It can help surface valuable insights from their data and transform how they make decisions. It enables them to tap expertise from across their entire ecosystem.”

Sounds wonderful doesn’t it? And it is wonderful. Trouble is, it’s no secret any more. It’s a well-established way of delivering IT services and its called cloud computing.  However that didn’t stop IBM – in a just-released white paper ‘Under cloud cover: How leaders are accelerating competitive differentiation’ – talking up cloud computing as if it had discovered some hitherto unknown panacea for all the woes of the IT world…

Nor does it detract from the insights offered in the white paper: insights gathered from a survey of over 800 ‘cloud decision-makers and users’ undertaken by the IBM Center for Applied Insights and Oxford Economics.  The aim of the survey was to get a global snapshot of how organisations are using cloud computing. Respondents were assigned to one of three groups based on their level of cloud adoption and whether there were reporting competitive advantage from cloud computing…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cio.com.au/mediareleases/18051/cloud-computing-the-open-secret-of-success/