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It's all about agility and speed to market. We work with thousands of small developers who now have access to enterprise class IT.

the ability to scale - cloud lets small companies act big, but it can also let big companies act small. for example launching new sites on cloud and bypassing legacy infra.

Choice as a benefit shows no boundaries in most cases, and will only be limited by your OPEX budget.

Scale your IT compute needs faster & Elasticity are huge advantages of the cloud!

Those small developers and build and test like large organizations when they have access to cloud.

We live in a real-time, On-Demand, Mobile & Connected world.. There is no longer time to buy, unbox, rack & stack equipment to handle new features and needs!

the ability to deploy solutions is much faster on cloud - we see customers deploying in days, legacy solutions might be weeks or months or quarters - as timeline goes up risk of budget and delivery slip also do.

We are also seeing a real growth in Continuous Delivery techniques, which automates all the application delivery steps that happen after "code complete." Cloud gives developers access to more of these tools, like Puppet and Chef, without lockin.

Scale, Flexibility and elasticity, again #Cloud offering properly architected with the right strategy will help companies of any size drive engagement and positive sentiments towards products, good or services

Can't hide from the fact that Shadow IT is often the driver for cloud as every department is already seeing the value and using cloud solutions because it is what they need to get the job done!

i'd say its all accessibility / availability. That surely works for me

Other benefits at the SaaS level is the specialization of the IT services supporting the solution. Instead of one DBA supporting many apps, you have many DBAs supporting one app.

To codify and consume a business process in or on a digital delivery platform - and modify it without performing an IT frontal lobotomy.

Also at SaaS level - not having to manage updates to software/versioning. Previously huge wasteful expense. Basically as a SaaS customer you only worry about your data.

A born on the cloud company still has business processes that evolve over time and hit scaling points where it makes sense to use technology.

Part2: Born on the cloud typically means the solution a startup offers, although they often adopt cloud based solutions when they do adopt a solution.

Born on the cloud startups are often struggling to move into the enterprise, and transformation of some kind is required to get there.

Most startups aren't able to expand and always purchase the latest and greatest so even born on the cloud companies will have to deal with limitations or cheaper solutions that aren't "Cloud Friendly!"

it applies to Startup and Enterprise as both are leveraging the technology and services to enhance businesses and customers lives.

On the other hand some SaaS companies have gotten their start running on IaaS, then become defacto IaaS providers when they got big and it made business sense.

@thinkahead Enterprises are able to migrate "Cloud Ready" applications without much push back but the legacy applications as well as massive amounts of legacy equipment that were already purchased make that transformation harder

I don't see it that way..many not born on the web are transforming to cloud. #devops is born on the web imho

Example for a startup is Finance and HR - at small scale these functions are on spreadsheets. Later they scale up to need enterprise solutions, which probably run on cloud.

cloud lock in remains very real at the SaaS and probably PaaS level though - at the IaaS level it's not as much an issue as the competition is driving down pricing.

I think their leverage is not the cloud but the middleware; and new power systems. They gave up the x86 piece which might be an issue down the road (maybe)

@furrier like the new X6 for SAP; I'd like to see IBM leading again and cloud technology might be the right path

If the app is usable, the cloud is invisible and meaningless to the end user.

End Users are seeing more focus on their experience in application development and how technology is delivered. Cloud especially PaaS and SaaS offerings are increasing the agility of organizations to deliver for the end user whether its an intern

or external

The end users not only expect to have apps and products always available and in the mobile world they want everything Available everywhere!

For the Enterprises they are focused on security, migration, privacy of data and understand the need for disaster recovery... the transformation for the enterprise is much longer with more variables!

untethered access to innovation and services into an H2H world

One area where end users should see the benefits of cloud is faster access to new applications.

The next wave if big data driven analytics which optimize user experience based on machine understanding of the user - both experience and machine learning capability are likely to be delivered via cloud slns because else economics wont scale

The cloud is transforming how customers and enterprise companies work together. Clients expect a full service experience. When they can get help with all their technology needs, in a one stop shop marketplace, this builds customers for life!

cloud transformation in general, and cloud foundry/bluemix in particular gives apps to a) end users 5x faster (weeks not months), and b) the enterprise 5x cheaper

End user experience should be invisible to technology, easy to use devices and apps. Reducing steps to do stuff; new experiences

Customers want and live in a SMAC world.. #Social #Mobile #Analytics and #Cloud

End users don't think about "the cloud." They think about unlimited access to applications from multiple devices.

I feel the market and consumerization of IT is telling us that there should be no difference in the user experience of technology for consumer and enterprises. Technology becomes opaque.

@aha_inthe_cloud exactly - the cloud should be in the background for the end-user, no more noticeable than the clouds in the sky

UX is critical in both, users dont care about how its delivered (social) and dont see the anlytics - they see the outcome. Agree it's opaque @guriahluwalia - but buying process for tech is diff for consumer and enterprise

@bcwright1217 Agree UX & CX are difficult because not only are the skills of the user different but the desired outcomes are as well..

@aha_inthe_cloud With unlimited apps, we are now at a different plateau of problem and opportunity to solve complexity of a different kind. We have an Apps surplus, and a Context deficit.

Thanks, I will watch your interview. Need my mojo from @Grady_Booch and you!

@guriahluwalia #cloudmojo I like it.

this is why we build #crowdchat this is open, recorded, public, peer to peer. Frankly some amazing insights here. I learn everytime @IBM does a crowdchat

@IBMCloud I am now thinking of Honda's Asimo running purely on the cloud. Now that's both astounding and dramatic entrance

Data will feed the human part of this next generation of collaboration

I am a power user of the app @IFTTT as it automates multiple cloud bases solutions and applications to make my life more productive.. Cloud powers that entire process!

I love Waze!!!

CrowdChat in itself is a CrowdSourced way of producing knowledge that is later reference-able