Lower costs and rapid implementation are seen as top advantages of the cloud model.
If a secure cloud model can be designed, economic savings can certainly be realized.
You can set up rules for someone hosting an application, but you can't set rules for a cloud model.
Clementi's group, dedicated to evangelizing its cloud model, has just 100 people, drawn from across IBM to develop the appropriate technical architectures and business models.
By moving to a cloud model, companies benefit from using a common set of standards to connect different collaboration tools and applications from different vendors.
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According to IDC, by 2015, one of every seven dollars spent on packaged software, server, and storage offerings will be through the public cloud model, growing five times faster than the total IT industry.
The cloud computing model is evolving around the world today.
Schmidt says the advantage of Google Wallet is that it is a one-stop way of managing things, he says all of that is fundamentally easier in a cloud based model.
One concern is that the shift to a cloud computing model will lead to an excess of low-level coders who do not have broad enough experience that enable them to build solutions comprised of many diverse parts.
With Genesys Connect for Service Cloud, we are taking these insights and combining them with Salesforce and a cloud delivery model to create a solution that is profoundly powerful, yet easy to deploy and simple to use.
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The business model behind cloud services is similar to the business model behind established communications network services.
Google Apps continues to win new business customers due to its cloud based delivery model and attractive pricing.
Supporters of the cloud-based model claim it is the best way to deal with an ever-changing hardware market.
Under the cloud-computing model, Microsoft would store Office programs on its own servers and deliver them to customers online.
When implemented properly, the cloud computing economic model can drastically reduce the operations and maintenance cost of IT infrastructures.
There are costs of migrating from an on-premises system to a cloud-based model.
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It was refreshing during the program to find providers who fully understood this and how it was imperative to move to a cloud-based model.
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This growing adoption of outsourcing services is seen as a first step toward moving to a cloud-based model, as companies become more comfortable with the concept of remote services delivery.
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By radically changing the information technology business model, cloud computing also challenges the traditional federal acquisition process.
This aggressive transformation will be accomplished by virtualizing data centers, consolidating IT operations, and ultimately adopting a cloud-computing business model.
So why is Adobe switching to a cloud-based subscription model?
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The State of Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) presents one of the few, if not the only, live operational model of cloud brokerage use within a government context.
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If meteorologists and vulcanologists developed a dynamic model of the ash cloud's progress, it might be possible to keep more airports open, and to reroute planes to get passengers moving again.
As Relan told me, the only real obstacle remaining is convincing publishers and early adopters that cloud gaming is a viable future business model.
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In addition, the data delivery systems (in the internet cloud) that serve the thin client model would also benefit with a tier of fast flash memory for rapid playout of content to the thin clients.
Next, it is critical to communicate company cloud policies and strategies clearly and concisely, with an emphasis on the positive benefits that public cloud services used within an IT governance model can bring to the organization.
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The use of this common security risk model provides a consistent baseline for Cloud based technologies.
Joint authorization of cloud providers results in a common security risk model that can be leveraged across the Federal Government.
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Meraki combines a high-velocity software development methodology with a tightly linked inside sales and channel model that will form the new Cloud Networking Group.
We talked about cloud computing and his vision for a hybrid model, the role that converged infrastructure and automation from the compute resources all the way to VM provisioning, Steve agreed that is what would ultimately be needed to enable private cloud.
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