“I think there is opportunity for this market to go far beyond analytics,” observed Margaret Dawson, Symform’s Vice President of Marketing, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Again,” Dawson continued, “this goes back to how we can integrate these solutions with other related products/solutions to get a broader picture of what is happening across our business. I think an interesting intersection is Big Data and distributed compute processing.”
Cloud Computing Journal: Agree or disagree? – “While the IT savings aspect is compelling, the strongest benefit of cloud computing is how it enhances business agility.”
Margaret Dawson: I don’t think it’s one or the other or so black and white. For some companies, it is absolutely a budgetary impact issue; for others, it’s about being able to move to a new technology or increasing productivity quickly regardless of money saved or not. For others it’s about minimizing impact on the network. Depending on which cloud computing platform and solution the business is pursuing, the benefits can be wide ranging. That being said, I absolutely agree that business agility is a key benefit of cloud.