How to Avoid a Cloud Strategy that Fails
September 10, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Thomas J. Bittman.
As cloud computing becomes widely adopted, organizations still maintain vastly different schools of thought on what the term “cloud” really means. That’s partly due to the term “cloud computing” being used for a broad collection of services, delivered at many different layers (infrastructure, application platform, software, and business process), and implemented in a variety of different ways (public, private, hybrid, on-premises, and off-premises).
There’s a big difference between “cloud” for bottom-line improvement and “cloud” for top-line improvement; and they can be diametrically opposed strategies. Cloud does not have a single value proposition for all types of services or enterprises, and there are risks to those who ignore its many variations…
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