A commonly held belief is that cloud computing—a utility model for computing capacity, software and business functionality—is a phenomenon whose value resides primarily in reducing IT costs. In fact, the flexibility that the cloud makes possible for infrastructures, services and processes means that it is also capable of driving significant innovation. This is a key finding of new research from the London School of Economics and Accenture, based on a survey of 1,035 business and […]
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Cloud computing may be defined as location independent computing whereby shared servers — for the purposes of this article, external to the enterprise — provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand. Cloud computing may have started out as an emerging trend that only IT professionals could get excited about (or fear), but it has quickly become one of the most important paradigm shifts in business today. C-suite executives on both […]