For years, IT departments have organized their processes, employees, and business relationships around owning and operating the core IT assets in an enterprise. The current wave of cloud services can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT, with the potential for significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. To achieve these benefits, IT departments will have to integrate new ways of thinking about how IT resources are delivered.
In his General Session at Cloud Expo New York, Scott Thomas, Vice President, Sales Engagement at Terremark, a Verizon Company, discusses the major factors driving cloud adoption for the enterprise, relating how the adoption of cloud technologies is changing the way IT departments will operate, and reviewing case studies showing how businesses have used cloud services to achieve these benefits.