The end of the age of innocence. The cloud and its applications in the real world / IT NEWS

The vision of cloud computing excites the business community, as has not happened with any previous technological development of corporate IT and rightly so. This is a revolutionary approach to the question of how we, as businesses in a world that is becoming day by day more information technology driven, will preserve the competitive advantages we have acquired over the years of hard work. How will we optimally implement the constant innovations in hardware and software, maintain complicated operative and analytical systems, and take advantage of the opportunities provided by global communication and social networks. It is clear to everyone that we want to consume the IT we need in the form of a service - without ownership of the infrastructure, without responsibility for operation and maintenance, without investing in purchasing software and implementing it in expensive and unsafe integration projects, and without having a team of experts whose entire task is to make sure everything works. The old approach of an autarkic IT economy is not only wasteful in capital and human resources, it is only suitable for static businesses, for preserving the existing while ignoring the writing on the wall. The address that says tomorrow belongs to the cloud users.

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