Cloud Computing and the Enterprise

Introduction

Within two to three years the emerging Cloud computing phenomenon will affect enterprise IT software in a myriad of unthinkable ways. Cloud computing is the notion of outsourcing hardware and software to Internet service providers. In terms of innovation, cloud computing is showing the classic signs of a disruptive technology—it is not good enough for the masses yet, but it has the clear potential to shake things up and up heave the industry.

Enablers

Virtualization

Cloud computing will emerge as a protagonist in the enterprise IT industry because it incorporates a framework for dealing with a classic and asphyxiating problem in corporations: legacy software. Cloud computing enables strategic change by using technologies such as virtualisation to allow internal IT to function in a manner which is more akin to an external service, whilst also changing the business’ ability to consume cloud services. Virtualization can decouple legacy applications from their mundane platforms and infrastructures so that they can be independently integrated into a modern architecture. Virtualization enables the emergence and adoption of Cloud computing because this method for dealing with legacy applications is attractive. Corporations can save on hardware and infrastructure expenditure by virtualizing and their legacy applications in the cloud.

Software as a Service

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