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What are some of the most dramatic examples you’ve witnessed of the cloud helping to transform a business?
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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
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Amy Hylden Anderson
I think it's dramatic when it changes a whole industry. Again, AWS and Zillow come to mind right away.
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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
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IO
First thing that comes to mind is Disaster recovery scenarios or collocation IT demands that weren't predicted!
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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
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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!
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GGG
@CrowdCaptain that is true, people are exposed to apps that they never know runs on the cloud
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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
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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
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IO
Enterprises must find a scalable approach to grow & manage cloud applications while also using software to manage legacy equipment.
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John Furrier
@iSocial_Fanz there is a lock in if to dependent on cloud;
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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
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Brendan Wright
Lock in is a misnomer - there are plenty of SIs that will move you cloud to cloud
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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
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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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