Cloud Computing: How To Make Your Own Silver Lining

Cloud computing is often talked about in sweeping generalities, but this white paper discusses the details and the facts about cloud computing, defining the three basic types of cloud service models, how to develop an effective cloud strategy, and what the forecast for cloud computing in the future looks like.  The paper discusses the need to see cloud computing as a business tool that, properly implemented, can help companies drive innovation and take marketshare away from their competitors.  But it stresses the importance of seeing the cloud as one tool out of many, and warns companies not to get into the cloud for the sake of being at the forefront of a new technology, but rather to use it when and how it makes business sense in their particular organization.