If you think about IT today, thousands of companies are hosting hardware and software and paying staff members to install, administer, and maintain their accounting, payroll, CRM and human resource applications. All of these systems are a necessity but none of them give a company a competitive advantage. In addition, each system has its own set of servers which typically are heavily under utilized in terms of disk space, CPU cycles, and memory allocation. Just think, these thousands of companies could run these applications as virtual machines on a shared environment at a third party’s datacenter.
A Quicker Path to the Clouds
August 4, 2008