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Bringing the Cloud back to Earth
The opportunities presented by adopting Cloud Computing are manifold and transformational for many organisations. The flexibility, scalability, and agility, not just of the technology but the business processes that the Cloud can enable, have proven invaluable and go some way to explaining the escalating popularity and the rapid pace of adoption of this IT delivery model. The start of a regular column from Andy Burton, Chairman of the Cloud Industry Forum.
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perception of end users with the benefits they have achieved through adopting Cloud services is extremely high with 96 per cent of a recently researched base of users by the Cloud Industry Forum confirming satisfaction with their experiences to date. However, the language of cloud computing is still often masked in hype and contradiction and is arguably preventing some organisations from either progressing to adopt cloud services or selecting the most appropriate Deployment and/or Service model for their needs. A greater understanding that their is no universal proposition and therefore how to determine when and how to deploy cloud based solutions is key to unlocking the Cloud’s full potential for any organisation.
It’s important to understand that the Cloud is not going to be right for 100 per cent of businesses 100 per cent of the time. For most organisations, it will be
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a complementary extension to their on- premise IT capability and not a wholesale replacement.
Organisations will typically find themselves managing a portfolio of deployment options at any given time, from on-premise through to co-location, hosted services, managed services and Cloud solutions.
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