This post was written by Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box.net. on TechCruch on January 10, 2010.
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Executive Summary :
- Cloud-based services are about to tip for the enterprise, and quickly.
- Today’s web-based platforms are finally maturing into real, viable solutions for businesses.
- Over the next two years, enterprise IT will follow in the footsteps of today’s early adopters and visionaries, finally embracing the Cloud and moving content, applications, and processes to the web.
- Managing infrastructure and technology that is not competitively-additive has become competitively-expensive.
- IT experts are redefining their roles and priorities from directly maintaining all the “contextual” applications around their business (CRM, email, file servers, search) to honing in on technologies that are core to their company’s performance and competitive advantage.
- There is no question that Security concerns and a fear of relinquishing control of data and applications are still holding back adoption of cloud technologies in the enterprise. But traditional IT has never been fully secure either, and Cloud IT providers have a number of mechanisms at their disposal to improve lock-down procedures on all fronts – plus, their business survival hinges on reliability and security.
- The Cloud is inherently scalable.
- Internal infrastructure can take months to set up, but cloud solutions can be online within hours.
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