Summary
Corporations, Government Agency, Healthcare Providers, Doctors, Lawyers, Casinos, and every different business or Individual has IT NEEDS. Social, legal, accounting, storage of personal information, distribution, business to business relationships, Job Search, Unemployment Claims, Banking,and everything else you do or need to do someway will end up in some Computer System or multiple Systems.
Most of us have been participating in "Cloud" Computing for years and years and will ultimately function in the "Cloud" going forward.
Analysis
It appears that the term "Cloud" needs clarification for most people, since it is a Marketing Hype for various services that have existed for years, and are now growing by Leaps and Bounds.
Many, Many Years ago in the IT World we had the "ASP"", who were the first "Application Service Providers", which today we call SaaS (Software as a Service), Computer Management and Monitoring which is now called Manged/ Hosted Remote Services Providers (MSP), Data Centers as previous known as off-site Data Storage, and the list of outsourced, remote services continues to grow and grow,
Even the small business or individual consultant that used Quickbooks is converting to Quickbooks Online(a hosted/managed, accessible from anywhere through the internet service-"SaaS")
The "Cloud" hype is all about a lower cost delivery model for all the bits and bytes of what IT is doing for you today. The "Cloud" enables Companies to deliver various types of workloads which may have been out of reach for a single Company to build and implement for themselves internally. The "Cloud" is a tremendous source of speedy, flexible, scalable/cost effective and secure IT services in IT Infrastructure, Security, Software, Unified Communication/ VoIP / Telepresence and Storage/Disaster Recovery as a Non-Intrusive Turnkey Solution provided by Third party service validated experts who will guarantee uptime and efficiency of services.
So, in summary, the hype behind the "Cloud" are in fact the Scalable, Efficient, IT Hardware, and Software Solutions that you can utilize in a highly available, Secure and Performance driven platform that is Managed by outside Service Providers and Guarantee Uptime availability.
Cloud Computing is all about the ability to integrate Hybrid Services via technology from various sources and deliver Services that provide value to the end-user (Individuals, Corporations, Government, Education,Manufacturing, etc.) Organizations must make a transition from Managing technology to in fact Managing the Correct mix of services that will provide greater Value to the Organization and will Enable growth. They will Manage a proficient Operation of a Service-Centric IT Model, based on delivering Value, while mitigating costs associated with risk, security,Integration and process and realizing cost savings, reliability, and Availability.
Steven H. Rothman; SCR CONSULTING, LLC.
