Nicholas Carr’s take on Cloud Computing for the Enterprises
For large companies, the cloud is typically used today not as a replacement for in-house
systems but as a complement, supplement, and extension to those systems.
Software-as-aservice (SaaS)...
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Nicholas Carr’s take on Cloud Computing for the Enterprises
For large companies, the cloud is typically used today not as a replacement for in-house
systems but as a complement, supplement, and extension to those systems.
Software-as-aservice (SaaS) subscriptions provide an easy, low risk way to extend or modernize standard
corporate applications, from human-resource administration and accounting to salesforce
automation and project management, while also accommodating the mobile devices and
remote collaboration that are essential to many modern business processes.
Cloud based
programming platforms (PaaS) allow for the rapid development, testing, and rollout of new
software applications and features without requiring investments in in house servers and
development tools.
And the ability to rent large amounts of storage and server capacity and
other infrastructural services online (IaaS) enables companies to deal effectively with the kind
of short-term computing requirements often in
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