The key is to begin by defining an employee-centric cloud strategy that recognizes the value that cloud services can provide and that maps IT policies to business objectives.
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In other words, organizations that adopt cloud computing will value business understanding of how things work over hands-on expertise with servers and SAP.
Fortunately, the cloud is getting much better press as organizations discover proper fits for cloud computing platforms, and we choose the path to the cloud for both value as well as performance.
They claim to bring the pricing and risk management strategies of the financial commodities markets to cloud computing via revenue-generating services that add convenience and value to the cloud user.
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But this is the opportunity for Appirio, whose mission includes helping customers get the maximum value from cloud implementations.
PlayStation Network and the cloud will offer additional value to PlayStation gamers.
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Generally, private clouds are needed to drive the levels of availability needed, and this can be cost prohibitive, thus defeating the value of cloud.
The value of time share and the core value of cloud computing are pretty much the same, only the resources these days are much better and more cost effective.
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What is clear right now is that with evidence of the value of cloud computing coming into sharper relief, cloud-based technology has emerged as the number one IT focus for many businesses.
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In sequence, senior executives from Thomson Reuters, Xerox, State Street Bank, Invensys Controls, Pitney Bowes Wells Fargo, Sanmina-SCI and Marsh highlighted the business value of cloud computing.
As far as the cloud is concerned, 2013 will be the year of the network, according to Joe Weinman, who is also the author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing.
What is the true value of the cloud?
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The value of the cloud lies in the fact that tasks that used to require an enormous investment in proprietary hardware can now be accomplished cheaply on commodity hardware that may not even be owned by the organization using them.
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Once this data is integrated with your cloud-based application, the value to a client skyrockets.
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Considine said cloud computing is disrupting the entire value chain from the technology to the types of buyers.
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Business-side executives overwhelmingly agree that the purpose of moving to cloud computing is to realize greater value, the survey finds.
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The value proposition of the cloud is compelling for the first two or three years, then begins to catch up to on-premises IT costs.
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As mentioned in the interview with John Considine, cloud computing has disrupted the existing value chain and creates new opportunities for adaptable services.
The original and essential value proposition of the cloud is to turn as many computing resources as possible into commodities that are available on demand.
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The increase in business agility and responsiveness that cloud computing makes possible shifts the strategic value of the CIO from a technical role to a business role.
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So, there is a lot of sense in having pretty smart endpoints, which can do work on their own behalf and share that work with cloud-based services that can generate value for everyone: information that can be read at a glance by any driver with a smartphone.
Against all this, the old idea of "one quarter and a cloud of profit" is of much less value.
And that is exactly why, even though its original value proposition is largely gone, cloud computing is still much more desirable than building an in-house IT apparatus.
Individual cloud offerings, when paired together, can offer value equal to more than the sum of their parts.
Dishwashers and water heaters that are programmed to do most of their high energy tasks at night, for instance, or Ford's Value charging system, which leverages a cloud database to charge electric vehicles when utility rates are at their lowest.
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He believes the next 24 months will be crucial in determining if the cloud becomes an open area in which most of the value goes to customers or a closed shop where the vendors reap most of the benefit.
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This is not meant in the typical IT vernacular, i.e. as a solution loses competitiveness and value, but in the true definition: Cloud will be understood as a commodity analogous to coal, and a unit for that commodity and a futures market will be defined and created.
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