Cloud Computing Will Force The IT Organization To Change
With Amazon's EC2, Google's AppEngine, and now Microsoft's Azure, cloud computing looks a lot less like some catch-all concept in the distance and more like a very real architecture that your data center has a good chance of being connected to in the near future.
If that happens, more than the technology must change. The IT organization, and how IT works with business units, must adapt as well, or companies won’t get all they want from cloud computing. Putting part of the IT workload into the cloud will require some different management approaches, and different IT skills, from what’s grown up in the traditional data center.
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Cloud Computing Will Force The IT Organization To Change
About the Author
Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book published in May 2010. He continues to stay at the forefront of reporting on cloud developments and is a frequent commentator and speaker at industry events. He joined InformationWeek in San Francisco in 2003. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld, analyst with the Mainspring group in Cambridge, Mass., sold to IBM, and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He graduated from Syracuse University, where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism and served as editor in chief of the Daily Orange.
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