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Industry View: Clarifying the business case for Cloud

Posted by admin in Infrastructure on Fri, 19/03/2010 - 12:33
  • How do you make the case for Cloud Computing? Mark Beaumont, Product Manager, International IT Solutions at Verizon Business, has some tips and guidance.
Cloud Computing is a hot topic at the moment, and for good reason. With it, companies have the potential to gain competitive advantages that could make a real difference to business performance – whether shorter time to market; services that can be quickly turned up or down; or reduced upfront IT costs, to name but a few. Yet despite its continued evolution, concerns remain. Is Cloud Computing secure? Will it provide reliable availability? Can an organization maintain control over business-critical systems and data that exist in the cloud?
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