Cloud computing for corporates

GigaOm blog has a good succinct guest author piece entitled "Is the Cloud right for you? Ask yourself these 5 questions" here.

It summarises the conclusions in a simple table

Key Question	Enterprise Data Center Better	Cloud Services Better	Key Cloud Benefit
1) Demand	Constant	Variable	Scalable and On-Demand
2) Growth	Predictable	Unpredictable
3) Fungibility of Demand	Deferrable or Promotable	Not Shapeable
4) Users	Concentrated	Dispersed	Globally Dispersed to Reduce Latency
5) Applications	Batch	Highly Interactive

Joe Weinman is Strategic Solutions Sales VP for AT&T Global Business Services. The views expressed herein are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of AT&T.

Worth reading to help crystallise your own debate.

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