Driving business agility via cloud

August 7, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Fay Humphries.

A successful shift to cloud computing involves, among other considerations, identifying the current business and IT issues that need to be addressed, understanding the risks and making the right infrastructure decisions for the business. Moving to the cloud can reduce costs, while meeting the need for the improved computing resources required to drive business, says Jon Tullett, senior editor: news analysis at ITWeb.

"Among the primary reasons CIOs implement cloud computing strategies, which has been borne out by several research houses, is to improve their business agility," he says. "And, while there are companies who haven’t seen any significant advantages and who may in fact have disrupted their business operations by adopting the cloud, there is an increasing number who have increased their competitive edge and seen real benefits."…

Among these are MTN and Finbond, which will unpack their success stories for the benefit of delegates at the upcoming ITWeb Cloud Computing 2014 conference in Johannesburg, in September…

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