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Cloud computing promises to become as a foundational element in global enterprise computing; in fact, many companies are exploring aspects of the cloud today. What leadership seeks is a strategic roadmap that allows them to capitalize on the operational benefits of current cloud offerings, while establishing a migration path towards a business and architectural vision for the role cloud computing will play in their future.
Collection of working papers
Deloitte’s Center for the Edge has spent the past year combining extensive research and industry insights to explore the topics of cloud computing and next-generation Web services. The resulting publication, Cloud Computing: A collection of working papers, explores the topic from different perspectives: business drivers, architectural models, and transformation strategies:
- Demystifying clouds: Explores the characteristics of next-generation architectures – cloud and service grid – that have the potential to support substantive changes in global enterprise constructs and operations.
- Moving information technology platforms to the cloud: Provides insights into IT platform architecture transformation from existing to next-generation architectures that will help companies:
- Simplify the architectures
- Better align them with businesses they enable
- Provide the means to externalize and manage policies across all architecture layers
- Motivation to leverage cloud and service grid technologies: Discusses the pain points that might be eliminated by migration to next-generation architectures.
The rapid pace at which vendors are systemizing their platforms for cloud computing and attracting corporations and users confirms the development of ecosystems that are based on the capabilities enabled by cloud computing.
To learn more, read the full report attached below.
Further Insights
View the archive of the "Cloud Computing In the Enterprise: Not If, But When and How?" Dbriefs webcast.
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