Cloud Computing in Practice – Rain Doctor or Line-of-Sight Obstruction

Abstract

For some time now, traditional IT operating models such as company-owned infrastructure and inhouse-developed application landscapes, have been increasingly replaced by infrastructure offshoring and outsourcing of non-strategic business processes in large BPO contracts. More recently, an apparently new era of IT operating models has surfaced – cloud computing. Rather than signing typical contracts in megadeals, companies have been shifting toward selective sourcing strategies, now leveraging “cloud” solutions as an integral component.