Why IT should stop trying to compete with outside cloud services
May 28, 2013
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Joe McKendrick.
Many IT leaders are concerned about how they can compete with cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Often, cloud providers are able to offer capabilities such as storage at a much more favorable price point than internal IT can deliver.
As a result, says Bernard Golden, executive withe Dell’s cloud computing group, says it’s high time IT leaders stop trying to compete with the outside services. In a recent CIO post, he says "the rapid rise of cloud computing means corporate IT may no longer be the cheapest purveyor of application hosting, infrastructure, storage and other services." As he put it, the cloud challenge "threatens to topple [corporate IT’s] position as monopoly supplier of computing to the larger enterprise."…
And he has a message for corporate IT leaders: the sooner you come to terms with this, the better. Golden is on to something, of course. The dedicated cloud providers have gigantic economies of scale they can bring to engagements. They have armies of specialized talent who can keep things humming with the latest software and security tools…
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