I have yet to hear a business partner complain that “IT is moving much too fast—I wish they’d slow down a little,” or that “I can’t think of anything else I want IT to do to enable my business—they’ve covered all the bases already.” Instead, we in IT are often viewed as the bottleneck, the naysayers, or the laggards.
Cloud computing can change that.
Although it can help reduce operating costs, I think the real promise of the cloud lies in its ability to help us fashion what I call the “real-time enterprise”—one that demands faster application development, a constant stream of data, and a responsiveness to business needs that just isn’t achievable with planning and refresh cycles that are years long.
To me, the question isn’t whether ...
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