The bigger the IT landscape the less attractive the business case for shift to cloud computing. Well, you end up with a very large private cloud as economy of scale wipes benefits of public cloud. The argument will probably hold true in large number of cases. Though i can imagine large airlines leveraging public cloud as most common airline processes are interlinked or are shared with a few other airlines. (oh that's Amadeues for you!) i was thinking about this in the context of large retailers. If you are a large retailer like Tesco surely it's scale, growth plans and operational justify your own infrastructure? I was also thinking of this in context of news that Tesco has signed a eight-year deal to use Microsoft products and services. I wondered how much of it would be cloud based and would Microsoft's latest cloud offerings be leveraged in this deal.
"Cloud like" characteristics will certainly be most desirable, no doubt. Any business operation will demand agile, flexible, less capital intensive investment in it's infrastructure. But i am wondering if commercial constructs of such deals can be made to mirror that of "cloud like" contract?
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