Recently CIO Magazine writer, Elizabeth Montalbano, wrote an article about how e-mail and collaboration applications, like MSFT Sharepoint and Exchange, will drive the first wave of adoption of cloud computing for enterprise businesses. Software Industry analysts and professionals claim that most enterprise businesses still do not trust that they will be provided with the high level of service they need to run applications through their networks (there is that word again – TRUST). Even has we move into the 21st Century, good ol’ fashion business fundamentals of "trust" and "value" are still needed to be a viable business (even in the "Information Age").
It is rather intereting that large enterprise businesses would want to try out cloud computing on a few applications, like e-mail, in determining whether to step into the space as a whole. The information contained in e-mail communications is just as valuable as that information contained on the corporate server, so it really makes no sense to "test the cloud computing waters" first with just a few applications. In other words, a business should just decide to either go full bore into the cloud computing space, or not go at all. I could easily make an argument that the information sent over e-mail is just as important as information stored on the corporate database. Due to attachments of files to e-mail correspondence, the vulnerability of the network is already being exposed, so what’s the point of just trying out cloud computing from a feasibility perspective. Maybe it’s a cost thing, but on the list of things to think about when deciding whether to go into the cloud computing space, that is at, or near, the bottom.
To read the article, please click here: E-Mail, Collaboration Will Drive Move to Cloud