The Evolution of IT to the Cloud at Cloud Expo New York

IT has already jumped on the SaaS bandwagon. They’ve realized that it is easier to use a SaaS application than to build and support a custom application in-house. As cloud computing becomes increasingly pervasive, businesses will move more and more of their infrastructure into a public or private cloud, initially looking to benefit from the economics and efficiency. As end users become more familiar with consuming infrastructure on-demand, the role of IT will change from being more project-oriented to being more service-oriented, essentially delivering IT-as-a-Service.
Historically, IT initiatives have been implemented on a per-project, integration basis – essentially, the antithesis of how cloud consumption models operate. How, then, would organizations rectify their business and IT objectives to ensure they remain on similar paths?
The answer is to take IT to the cloud as well.

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