CIOs Consider Skipping Private Cloud

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Gary Flood.

Is cloud just a way to outsource low-risk, low-return business processes to save money, or a potentially revolutionary new way of working? That’s the kind of question one might expect of a hard-core cloud convert or cloud services provider. But according to Mark Tonsetic, practice manager in the IT practice at CEB, a member-based global advisory organization, it’s a question that blue chip CIOs are beginning to ask.

And what they are beginning to decide, he claimed, seems pretty radical. "Cloud often presents itself as not that much of a different way of working than on premises," he said. "If it is a change at all, that’s often presented as just a change in the technology, which is often seen as at a lower altitude than business process."…

But for at least some of the user organizations he’s talked to, the idea is to turn all that on its head: Why not use cloud, in close partnership with appropriate service providers, to look at cloud as a way to do genuinely new things — or in Tonsetic’s words, "change their business capability."…

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