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Published on: May 22, 2009
Type of content: WHITE PAPER
Format: Unknown
Length: 9 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:
The uncertain economic climate today has raised expectations from IT to deliver results, reduce enterprise costs, and be ready to tackle future challenges. To meet the newer, higher expectations, enterprise IT is evolving and moving into another realm of innovation that blends effectiveness, economics, and flexibility - "the cloud." This dynamic computing model has brought a fresh approach to developing, deploying, and delivering infrastructure, applications, and IT services. Forrester and IDC predict that cloud computing will dominate the enterprise IT space in 2009. The question is: are enterprises ready to tap the power of cloud computing?

This white paper explores the benefits of cloud computing. It further draws a distinction between public (or external) clouds and private enterprise clouds, and examines how businesses can embrace hosted private clouds to enjoy the agility, flexibility, and cost savings of the cloud while ensuring that their enterprise systems and data meet stringent IT policies and changing business needs.