Economy-Webedition

There are many business advantages in the cloud. A partial but not complete list is:

• Scale: Because of scale cloud services are deliverable more efficiently and effectively than those traditionally found in corporations not at scale, operating at a reduced scale with full scale expenses or contenting with scale mismatch, i.e., maintaining an overly large infrastructure simply because hardware devices are too large to neatly fit with a smaller corporate environment ... [more - pdf]

The cloud is a game-changer and moving to the cloud means transforming the way you sell and do business today, as David Ednie, President and CEO of SalesChannel Europe, explains
Disrupt or be disrupted. The cloud is a hugely destabilising and disruptive force in the IT market. It changes everything for resellers and for buyers of IT applications and services. In particular, it moves us right away from that whole linear sales process which we have all followed for so long. Instead it puts control into the buyer’s hands ... [more - pdf]

Economic impacts on supply and demand in IT.

In the early 20 th century, the economist Joseph Schumpeter became famous by popularizing the concept of "creative destruction".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
Schumpeter's central idea was that "capitalism can be understood as an evolutionary process of continuous development and of creative destruction.

In the IT world, the 2010 - 2020 decade will be the one of the Cloud ; it will be a perfect example of this "creative destruction ». New actors, new business models will arise and undermine the incumbents vendors who will have a  very hard time adapting to strong and profound changes induced by Cloud Computing ... [more - pdf]

Through the past years, when application licenses where delivered to customers, things were quite easy. The application license was bought and boxes where delivered. The application had to be installed on one or more of the company servers and the internal IT department made sure the applications were delivered to the computers of the end users within the company over the internal network. Purchase costs and an annual fee for application maintenance applied and the application could be used, depending on the number of licenses acquired ... [more - pdf]

This document analyses various  causes for the slow take-off of the Cloud Computing market in general, based on recent research and published articles. Proposals to overcome the slow takeoff  of the market are also listed in the following white paper, with particular emphasis on Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
Keywords: Cloud Computing Market, Cloud Services, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Public Clouds, Private, Clouds, Hybrid Clouds, Security Policies ... [more - pdf]