CIOs and senior IT executives increasingly examine cloud computing as an option to address their significant and immediate challenges to reduce costs and innovate effectively. Today, the most forward-looking companies are looking beyond reducing cost and complexity, toward applying the transformative power of cloud computing to reinvent the way they do business. Cloud computing has become an imperative with the potential, if not the promise, of transforming how new business value is captured and delivered with unprecedented speed and dexterity
The promise of cloud computing is realized because of its fundamentals—standardization of infrastructure, virtualized resources and automated processes—and the business results are measurable. Cloud computing represents a paradigm shift at many levels, but the return on investment (ROI) that cloud customers are realizing cannot be overstated.
