Special report Cloud Computing
they’re not doing things with your customers anywhere else, and look at how many compelling. Cash is king. So, I think that is
or your suppliers or the processes within your transactions have gone through and how the main perception as to one of the main
organisation. If they are just purely dealing many people have paid by MasterCard or benefits of the Cloud.
with IT issues then that is outside your core Visa. Also, because an application is instant
competence and doesn’t particularly hosted in the Cloud, you don’t have to be
contribute to your bottom line except in a concerned about upgrading applications
negative fashion. If you can outsource aspects sitting on your exchange server.
of IT management you can use the highly
skilled people in question to do more strategic Kaj Van De Loo, SAP
things and help you to drive your business. Currently there is large interest among our
That, I think, is the core of Cloud computing customers to have ‘edge’ solutions on K Ananth Krishnan, Tata
for organisations big and small. demand available in the Cloud; these are Consultancy Services
solutions that live around their existing core Some of the
Andrew Bond, Oracle SAP business suites. For example, they could key benefits
The public Cloud offers a rental model as be sales force automation or time & expense of Cloud
opposed to purchase model. But for me, in management applications. So the biggest Computing
addition to cost advantages one of the major factor here is time to value. When you decide can be
advantages should be around the quality of that you want to use an edge solution you broadly
service. We have the ability to access dynamic can start often start using it within hours. classified
resources that are highly flexible. And there - Nevertheless, the verdict is still out regarding under the
fore as our demand grows we should be able whether the total cost of ownership of these following
to add additional resource from a resource types of on-demand applications is lower than categories:
pool in the Cloud and quickly and easily scale the on-premise ones because, to some extent,
our operations to those extra resources. you get what you pay for.
Costs – Operating expenditure instead
Simon Black, Sage Pay Dave Carmichael, of Capital expenditure.
There are several significant benefits to Sterling Commerce Time-to-Market – Rapid provisioning.
customers. One is that any application in the When credit capital is in short supply you Elasticity.
Cloud can be accessed and managed from maybe don’t want to use up large sums in Availability.
any location. So, for example, if a retailer has up-front capital expenditure for new software. Self-Service.
a roaring online trade and wants to regularly The Cloud gives users the ability to move this Simplicity – Easy to consume.
review his online transactions, he can log on type of capital expense to an operational Efficiency – through utilisation and
from the office or log on from home or expense, and this is when it becomes virtualisation. circlesolid
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