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Cake presents its thoughts on the economics of cloud computing.
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Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking economic value in a business. Companies create real, sustainable value when they implement a new technology strategy with new ways of doing business, and change their business model. Cloud computing enables just this. It's transformational, changing business models, cost models and the economics of IT. It provides another example of what Cake terms a 'pay as you go' financial model for IT investment. Business dependency on IT continues to grow, but a this dependancy grows, so do the IT resources necessary to support the IT infrastructure increase. Alongside this, many organisations have complex, unwieldy and rigid IT infrastructures where costs are a significant burden on the organisation. Efforts on data centre consolidation, application rationalisation and virtualisation aren't enough to stem the tide and some harsh realities are facing many CTOs. Welcome to cloud computing - a set of disciplines, technologies and business models used to provide IT capabilities as on on-demand, scalable and flexible service. Cloud computing is a way of increasing the agility of IT, transforming it to a 'service' across the business. The business needs this increased agility from its investment in IT and faster ROI, lower cost purchasing models and flexible payment models, reduced complexity and cost of IT delivery Cake offers their economic perspective on the cloud, looking at:
- Consumption, subscription and licensing models
- Cost considerations in the reach, scale & capability of SAS
- Pricing and cost effectiveness of different service level agreements
- How to determine the business value of different service management models
- A model for managing the new economics of Cloud IT
Despite the acclaimed technology benefits of introducing the Cloud, the single most important benefit that the Cloud brings is a new economic model for IT.
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