How Cloud Computing is Changing the IT Industry
February 10, 2013
Grazed from Seattle Post. Author: Editorial Staff.
When we think of the cloud’s impact on the corporate world, it is easy to get caught up in how it has changed the way we do business on a global level, how we can connect using a multitude of devices, or even how it has given small businesses access to better technology. What sometimes gets lost is how the cloud has changed the IT industry as a whole.
Cloud computing is revolutionizing the IT industry, not only because it provides robust technology solutions at a variety of price points, but because it facilitates a change in the role of the IT organization itself. "Cloud computing has the ability to transform an IT’s focus from performing business as usual activities (keeping the organization running) to driving IT innovation," explained Shally Stanley, managing director, Global Services…
"IT teams spend less time on updating, upgrading, and maintaining systems and more time supporting business processes, analytics and critical decision making." There are two primary ways to categorize cloud’s impact on IT: financial and operational. "The total cost of ownership of software and hardware goes down for end users since they are removed from the business of buying, licensing, and maintaining associated assets," said Rick Madan, executive director of network services for TEKsystems, an IT staffing, talent management and services provider…
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