IT Can Embrace The Movement or Sit Back & Be Replaced
Guest blog from Jonathan Dale, Fiberlink.
Clouds are everywhere……
That statement does not mean that it’s going to rain. It does not even mean the outlook of something is gloomy. We are talking about the Internet clouds. It seems like all technologies from CRM applications to online games are all cloud based. What does it really mean for IT? Outside of the obvious items such as faster scalability, lower total cost of ownership (TCO), quicker ROI, I’ll change the questions to, what it does not mean. It does not mean that IT looses control. It does not mean that employees loose their “power.” It has nothing to do with employees loosing their job. In fact, the opportunity IT has to adopt cloud based computing is simply amazing. IT is at a critical point of deciding to adopt new technology to help their company grow and prosper or keep with legacy solutions and remain in the back seat.
By adopting cloud based computing, IT will be in a position to:
- Lead the company into the new era of computing
- Enable the company to operate at a higher efficiency across the board
- Adopt mobility which is often quickly enabled by cloud computing
- Change their status from “just IT” to a major player in decision making
- Change their day-to-day role from task oriented to core business focuses
The time is now and moving quickly. Adopting cloud based IT services is the future as companies are realizing the benefits of lower cost of ownership, quicker scalability, and doing more with the same staffing head count. IT can choose to embrace the movement or sit back and be replaced with staff which understand the risks at stake to the company. In IT, the forecast is no longer scattered clouds. Today, clouds are everywhere.
about 2 years ago
Quite confusing blog.
1. Didn’t have a message which it is trying to preach.
2. What the does company behind the blog do? That is equally confusing
3. Performance, scalability and security and ROI can be used to sell almost anything. Is that IT’s biggest enemy? No concrete measurable criteria. just buzz words.
I have been reading these blogs for sometime. No thread of what the company does, other that giving some story about mobility. which is equally vague and does not tell the customer what does it do?. If cloud computing means accessing your website like bank’s website, it was done 10 years ago, not now.
“clouds are everywhere” kind of statements just make the article laughable. Cloud computing ROI depends how well the management architecture of Infrastructure is designed. If to fix the issue, an engineer in developing country has to be woken up in middle of night, then the architecture is not good. People justify that by saying, that they are a globally balanced company. Nothing can be farther from truth. It is that plain and simple. Very few companies recognize that.