Stealth cloud startup Connectloud: Here’s what the next-generation cloud looks like

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author:  Zeeshan Naseh.

Enterprises today are reeling from unprecedented disruption to their business models and effects of globalization that inflict new competitive and pricing pressures. These dynamics have put CIOs under the gun to meet twin goals that would seem to form a paradox:

• To construct and operate an agile IT infrastructure capable of scaling quickly and securely to meet evolving business demands.
• To reduce IT operating costs and total cost of ownership.

In response to these competing demands, CIOs are turning from old computing resources – resource-intensive on-premises data centers that often are duplicated, siloed and underutilized – to the Cloud. Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service models can help achieve some goals, especially related to cost…

According to a recent study conducted by the University of Manchester Business School, the shift is working:

• 74 percent of large enterprises and 64 percent of small and midsize businesses said Cloud computing had decreased their IT costs.
• Nearly three-quarters of retailers surveyed reduced costs enough to invest more money into their businesses.
• 23 percent of large companies surveyed said they saved between $750,000 and $6 million annually…

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