One Major Reason Companies Abandon Cloud Projects

Grazed from I.T. Business Edge. Author: Loraine Lawson.

One of the main reasons cloud computing is taking off is that it’s just so darn easy. It’s cheap, it’s quick, and you don’t need to go through a lengthy battle to do it. You’ve heard it a hundred times — it only takes a credit card and you’re up and running.

But while that may be what makes cloud popular, it’s not the best way to leverage cloud computing’s real power, writes Rex Wang, vice president of Oracle’s Product Marketing, in a recent Forbes column. By taking a long-term, strategic approach to cloud computing, you can use cloud computing to drive transformational change, he writes…

“Thinking big and taking a long-term view are critical,” he writes. “Accelerating the pace of business innovation, dramatically simplifying IT, and increasing responsiveness to dynamic business needs are what CEOs demand from their CIOs, and cloud computing can help make this happen if it’s done right.”…

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