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Chapter 5

Ten Reasons Why Enterprise
Cloud Is the Future of IT

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nterprise cloud has a bright future in IT, and for good reasons. Here’s a look at ten reasons why enterprise cloud is
the future of IT:
✓ A brand new economic model: Your old legacy‐based IT
economic model is no longer sufficient. With enterprise
cloud, you can adopt the pay‐as‐you‐go characteristics of
the public cloud while providing a common foundation
upon which to run both legacy and new‐style apps.
✓ A focus on the end‐user: Your users are demanding new
services, and you may not even know it. Until you discover why your users are deploying shadow IT systems,
you may not understand their needs. An enterprise cloud
can help you better focus your efforts on addressing the
deficiencies seen by end‐users.
✓ Faster response from IT: IT has a perception of being
slow, especially when compared with cloud providers,
who can instantly deploy new infrastructure for you.
With enterprise cloud, you gain the ability to provide
instant infrastructure for your business users.
✓ Refocusing IT on the business: The 80/20 rule can
become the 20/80 rule if you do things right. Enterprise
cloud can help you to make this shift. You can tailor your
IT department’s services to activities that generate revenue rather than simply keeping the lights on.
✓ Public cloud simply makes sense: You get built‐in economies of scale, instant deployment, and powerful management tools. Enterprise cloud can help you gain these
abilities with your own infrastructure.

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