Five Profit Enablers Driving Business to the Cloud
Michael Hugos, Derek Hulitzky · 2012
Countless companies and organizations have moved or are moving their more traditional computing environments into the cloud. With the help of case studies, this chapter explores the reason and motivations behind companies moving to the cloud. It discusses the five most dominant themes that are driving organizations to move their business into the cloud. In free markets, companies will migrate to more competitive solutions that enable their profit objectives. On a microeconomic and macroeconomic scale over a period of decades, organizations will establish a changing equilibrium in the market based on the newest methods to legally and reliably produce profits. Cloud computing is changing the equilibrium underneath the foundations of today's corporate data centers.