{"id":28089,"date":"2012-03-27T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=28089"},"modified":"2012-03-27T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T15:08:04","slug":"in-cloud-computing-moves-money-isnt-everything-darrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/03\/27\/in-cloud-computing-moves-money-isnt-everything-darrow\/","title":{"rendered":"In cloud computing moves, money isn\u2019t everything [Darrow]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/cloud\/in-cloud-computing-moves-money-isnt-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\">In cloud computing moves, money isn\u2019t\u00a0everything<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from gigaom.com by Barb Darrow<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While saving money is a commonly reason cited for moving IT to the cloud, it is really not the overriding driver at all for most companies, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What\u2019s more important than cost savings for companies \u2014 at least in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific regions \u2014 is the ability to standardize their software and business processes across the company, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcs.com\/cloudstudy\/Pages\/default.aspx?utm_source=pr&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=cloudstudy\" target=\"_blank\">a new survey of 600 large companies<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.tcs.com\/cloudstudy\/tcs-cloud-study-key-findings#.T3ChxWGPW_0\">Tata\u00a0Consultancy Services<\/a>, the $8 billion IT service provider. In Europe and Latin America, the primary rationale was the ability to ramp systems up and down faster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">According to the survey:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The factors driving companies to launch entirely new applications in the cloud are quite different \u2013 to institute new business processes and launch new technology-dependent products and services.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In cloud computing moves, money isn\u2019t\u00a0everything &#8212; from gigaom.com by Barb Darrow Excerpt: While saving money is a commonly reason cited for moving IT to the cloud, it is really not the overriding driver at all for most companies, according to new research. What\u2019s more important than cost savings for companies \u2014 at least in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,208,287,458,180,64,321],"tags":[725,19,711,784,661,47,728],"class_list":["post-28089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-europe","category-india","category-innovation","category-it-in-he","category-united-states","tag-asia","tag-cloud-computing","tag-europe","tag-india","tag-innovation","tag-it","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28094,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28089\/revisions\/28094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}