The Discriminating Executive’s Guide to Cloud Computing
Business leaders need more than technical speak; they need cogent answers to critical business questions. With global cloud computing revenue topping $250 billion in 2017, it’s abundantly clear cloud solutions are rapidly supplanting the legacy, on-premise IT solutions businesses have leveraged for many years. What’s also clear is that despite its growth, cloud computing remains shrouded in mystery for too many business leaders. Unfortunately, this makes it difficult for these leaders to confidently and effectively evaluate cloud computing, and prevents their organizations from fully leveraging its tremendous business value. Search the Internet for “what is cloud computing,” and you’ll get results filled with technical jargon like hybrid, elastic, utility, ubiquitous, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, DBaaS, etc. Those all are very valid ways for technologists to describe cloud computing traits and capabilities, but a bit esoteric for business leaders who just want to know if cloud computing c...