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What are some of the most dramatic examples you’ve witnessed of the cloud helping to transform a business?

Brendan Wright
for startups it's let us scale to enterprise grade "overnight" - I think how that whole VC backed industry has changed in 10 years is a huge example

Amy Hylden Anderson
I think it's dramatic when it changes a whole industry. Again, AWS and Zillow come to mind right away.

Crowd Captain
this crowd chat app right here is an example; runs in cloud (#devops) lots of node etc; low cost high value; don't have to hire bunch of sys admins #infrastructure #code

IO
First thing that comes to mind is Disaster recovery scenarios or collocation IT demands that weren't predicted!

John Furrier
I see analytics continuing to be huge spinning up cloud real time resource pools to do "point analytics" on data..system like capabilities at the finger tips #bluemix will be part of this

Brian Fanzo
At #AWSreinvent it was very cool to see companies like @AirBnB & @Dropcam grow and expand so fast while never purchasing one physical server!

GGG
@CrowdCaptain that is true, people are exposed to apps that they never know runs on the cloud

Brendan Wright
in big companies that have already invested, the transformation tends to be looked at for cost savings and frankly that case is often hard to make

Brendan Wright
big companies that have already invested in systems need to focus on cloud projects where they develop new capabilities - analytics and other big data are use cases that make sense

IO
Enterprises must find a scalable approach to grow & manage cloud applications while also using software to manage legacy equipment.

John Furrier
@iSocial_Fanz there is a lock in if to dependent on cloud;

Ed Laczynski
the dramatic ones aren't all greenfield. they are often in seemingly fringe problems with outsized impact. e.g. can't access information, get cloud+mobile storage and sharing >> increase productivity + sales + happiness

Brendan Wright
Lock in is a misnomer - there are plenty of SIs that will move you cloud to cloud

Brendan Wright
it just a function of business case if you worried about cost... if you are missing capabilities, then that's a different challenge, but possibly an opty too @edla

Renat Khasanshyn
we've seen a dramatic impact of the cloud in the form of cloud foundry powered app factory which resulted in 1-2 year time to market advantage for 1B+ enterprise (media) against competition

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