Companies Value Cloud Computing
Posted: November 05, 2009
Sponsored by Google, Inc.
In essence, cloud computing means running software and accessing data that reside somewhere else. ZDNet explains cloud computing in business-trend terms: “Software platforms are moving from their traditional centricity around individually owned and managed computing resources and up into the ‘cloud’ of the Internet.”
Google explores the cloud computing trend at length in another whitepaper, “Cloud Computing-Latest Buzzword, or a Glimpse of the Future?”
This paper picks up where the other paper ended: Examining whether cloud computing makes good business sense for your company. Let’s start with some predictions:
- In the next 12 months, someone in your company will push for at least one on-demand application.
- Your company’s first encounter with cloud computing will be driven by needs to save money, but within a few months of the first deployment, your horizons will expand. You’ll see opportunities where you once saw problems. You’ll see corporate silos tumble as people from different departments and locations collaborate on projects.
- Ultimately, you may find that moving your data to the cloud actually improves security, scalability, access and disaster recovery.
Overly optimistic? Perhaps. But as many companies are discovering, cloud computing offers rapid and significant results.
To download this white paper, click here.
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