How to take control of your cloud
May 15, 2014
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Lilac Schoenbeck.
Cloud computing services are becoming increasingly mainstream and are fast establishing themselves as an integral part of every organisation’s IT strategy. Many industry analysts firmly believe that cloud will become a major platform for growth for all organisations, and especially mid-market businesses. This is because, previously, if an organisation wanted to get a new idea off the ground, they would often have had to make a significant upfront investment in IT before they even knew if their business idea was going to work. The cloud, however, levels the playing field.
When used effectively, cloud takes away barriers to entry and makes technology available to all organisations, regardless of size. From day one, a business can ramp up very quickly and easily without having to make serious up-front capital investment. The move to the cloud is seamless. Costs are predicable. There are no big step changes or spikes in costs for maintenance or renewal requirements. Remote working and disaster recovery can also be built in…
However, because of this rapid growth and evolution, it could be argued that the definition of cloud has become somewhat unclear. Today, the term is used for everything from physical hosting "elsewhere," to Gmail, to almost anything in between. It seems that the meaning of the cloud is different to different organisations, depending on how it is being used…
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