-- Overall cost of IT infrastructure
-- Need to enhance competitive advantage
-- Lack of flexibility in the current IT environment
-- Need to support additional services or users
"Small businesses and startups are adopting cloud computing to break down
traditional technological and financial barriers in the delivery of new
categories of software innovation," said Bill Lesieur, research director,
Aberdeen. "Larger businesses are cutting costs with cloud computing while
embarking on a transformation of their IT service delivery models based on
SOA architectures and cloud computing."
Survey results show top performing organizations shared several common
characteristics, including:
-- 77% monitor cloud applications for efficiency and use
-- 75% have a cloud team or task force
-- 69% use a formal cloud evaluation process
-- 62% have a formal education plan for training cloud team
Cloud computing is changing the role of IT from predominantly one of
maintenance to one of innovation enabler through the new service delivery
model of cloud services. Consequently, top companies are realizing the
critical need to establish a governance model around SOA architectures and
cloud-based service delivery.
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