ITPro - Cloud Computing As A Strategic Economic Tool: Rising to the Challenge
The current recession has made enterprises around the globe take a long hard look at the way they are doing business and forced many of them to revisit their core principles about how they manage IT. In particular, they are considering cloud computing as a viable IT services delivery model — primarily for cost reasons. With the uncertain economic times requiring many businesses to severely curtail IT budgets, outsourcing their IT operations to managed services providers with cloud capabilities in particular, enables companies to dramatically reduce their investments in hardware — hardware that tends to be underutilised — while giving them greater business agility.
Although some economists say that the end of the recession is in sight, interest in cloud computing is not likely to fade. The same reasons that cloud was so attractive during the economic downturn will drive its continued adoption during the recovery.
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