Google CIO: Cloud Will Dictate Business Processes
Google’s CIO Ben Fried said the cloud is slowly dictating how small businesses are going to growand whether or not they can transition to become a big company. Speaking at the Bloomberg Link Enterprise Technology Summit, he said that it is a difficult idea to wrap one’s head around but it doesn’t make it less true.
According to Fried, workers back then were already used to simple and free tools like Skype, iTunes, and Flickr for their personal affairs, but soon they also started wanting to employ said cloud-based applications for work. On the other end, CIOs and executives are seeing the benefit and have started to allow employees to experiment with said cloud-based services.
The massive adoption of cloud computing is further boosted by enterprise-focused cloud services such as Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services), which leveraged lower costs and allowed startups and small companies to run their businesses via cloud for a fraction of what it would cost in the past, leading to a flood of high quality apps from a wide variety of vendors, in an industry that used to be the sole domain of large enterprises. More details here
According to Fried, workers back then were already used to simple and free tools like Skype, iTunes, and Flickr for their personal affairs, but soon they also started wanting to employ said cloud-based applications for work. On the other end, CIOs and executives are seeing the benefit and have started to allow employees to experiment with said cloud-based services.
The massive adoption of cloud computing is further boosted by enterprise-focused cloud services such as Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services), which leveraged lower costs and allowed startups and small companies to run their businesses via cloud for a fraction of what it would cost in the past, leading to a flood of high quality apps from a wide variety of vendors, in an industry that used to be the sole domain of large enterprises. More details here