Oracle Disrupts Cloud Industry with End-to-End Approach
October 4, 2012
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Bob Evans.
As cloud computing’s enormous business value is convincing a rapidly growing number of CEOs and CIOs to join the cloud revolution, it’s not surprising to see IT vendors of every stripe attempt to position themselves as the industry leader. And hey, why not? It’s a market filled with massive opportunities for customers eager to begin bending their IT spending curves toward away from infrastructure-sprawl and toward innovation, and for tech vendors looking to satisfy that surging demand.
Business executives are viewing the cloud as a way to begin shifting the IT-budget spending ratio away from 80% on infrastructure and 20% on innovation to something much closer to 50-50, which would liberate desperately needed capital to fund market-facing growth initiatives. (For more on that incredibly important topic, please check out our recent post called The Top 10 Strategic CIO Issues for 2013.)…
But along the way to cloud deployments, many in the tech community—including customers as well as vendors—appear to be in danger of recreating the same sort of Tinker-Toy jumble that’s tormented CIOs for the past couple of decades: wildly complex systems cobbled together from hundreds of disparate components that suck up vast percentages of IT budgets and leave little or nothing for innovation…
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