Four disruptive start-ups in enterprise cloud computing
September 15, 2014
Grazed from WashingtonPost. Author: Linda Bernardi.
Everyone has heard about the cloud, which powers the smartphone apps we all love. The cloud is also vital to large companies, yet their adoption of the cloud hasn’t been as seamless. Large companies are hampered by years of old systems, programs and data, hundreds of thousands of employees spread across the world, distributed operations which are often siloed (disconnected).
They not only have to run their traditional businesses but now have to evolve to deploy across the complex cloud landscape and have everything readily available on smart devices. It is a complicated environment along with security, policy and other requirements. Not only do they need to deploy cloud for internal operations but also to support their massive customer base…
Today, we the consumers expect our airlines, hotels, department stores, favorite restaurant and physician to be available via superb apps. How is all this complexity solved and delivered to me in a mobile app? Unless we end this dysfunction, enterprises will not meet our needs…
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