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Data centers and headquarters have made up approximately 90 percent of the value in many recent asset sales on Wall Street. For example, Lehman Brothers sold its assets to Barclays for $1.75 billion, 86 percent of which was for the data centers and headquarters alone.
Todd Pierce recently put his job on the line. To meet the computing needs of 16,300 employees and contractors at Genentech, Pierce took a chance and decided not to rely entirely on business software from Microsoft, IBM or another long-established supplier that would have let Genentech own the technology. Instead, Pierce decided to rent these indispensable products from Google.
Many enterprises and service providers are now grappling with how cloud models and economics will impact them. The specter of a challenging business climate may well hasten the need to seek IT resources that are supported through greater cloud computing approaches — to save money, as well as to better reach global audiences and gain Web-scale efficiencies.
There’s little room for error if your company decides to make the transition from a provider of on-premise solutions to a service provider via cloud computing. If you don’t take the time to develop reliable services that match the reliability of your on-premise offerings, your credibility will suffer.
Web 2.0 technologies offer more opportunities than just sharing information with friends and family on Facebook or uploading user-generated videos on YouTube. The tools that help enable conversations between people on the Internet can also help corporations get closer to their customers.