What is the killer app for cloud computing?
Posted by brennels on December 16, 2009
Chris Poelker Intelligent Storage Networking
“Unless you have had your head buried in the sand lately, you have by now heard of the term cloud computing. Cloud computing can be defined as service-based computing, where a company buys software or storage as a service (SaaS) from an internal or external provider.
A good example of cloud computing in action is e-mail from either Yahoo or Google. Instead of running your own mail servers, you simply allow your employees to use the services provided by those companies to eliminate the capital costs of doing it yourself. You may not have complete control, or get everything your heart desires in a mail solution, but the price sure is right. It will be interesting to see how long these companies can go without charging for these services.
Another “Software as a Service” cloud company is SalesForce.com, which provides software to manage customer relations management (CRM) and sales campaigns. Not having to build out the infrastructure for these applications internally can save big money on capital investments, and enable the people in the IT department to focus on delivering new customer facing applications which impact the bottom line.”
Read the full article here on computerworld.com
