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Is cloud still about cost / value / efficiency?
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Sam Garforth
We are now at Cloud 3.0. V1 was about capex reduction, v2 was devops, now we're onto industry transformation
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Jennifer Parker
Cloud is about way more than cost and value ... it is a disruptor
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David Terrar
Should have moved from utility to agility, innovation and enabling new business models #cloud
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Sam Garforth![](/images/document_icon.png)
The Institute of Business Value's Power Of Cloud discovered that most benefit of cloud came from business disruption http://www-935.ibm.c...
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IBM The power of cloud
To transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value chains, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business models.
To transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value chains, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business models.
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David Terrar
Yep, #cloud should be viewed as a key component of #digitaldisruption
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SimonPorter
good point, #cloud enables companies to disrupt markets by quickly introducing new business processes & reaching global markets - eg Worldticket.com
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Steven Dickens
barrier to entering new market because of IT build out is now not an issue...
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David Terrar
@samjgarforth Not sure you can quite break whole cloudscape in to those 3 phases but true for enterprise IT #cloud
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Gary Wilson
Agree. Economics is still key, but speed (time to market, innovation) and empowerment (for business users, developers) are equally, if not more important.
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SimonPorter
Gary , yes agree and global reach to new markets, consumers etc
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Steven Dickens
agree economics is only part of the equation