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Astadia on Cloud Computing

With hundreds of providers and thousands of apps in the Cloud ecosystem, Astadia brings together the solution set that makes sense for your business situation and corporate strategy.

What is Cloud Computing?

Fundamentally, here's what Cloud Computing is:

  • Moving Platforms, Software, and Infrastructure to "The Cloud" (third party hosted) and delivering them through the internet as services.
  • Multitenancy,
  • Pay-as-you-go,
  • Unlimited scale,
  • Unprecedented speed of development + response to rapid business change and increasing complexity,
  • Saving money + reducing environmental footprint of IT,
  • Fundamentally new capabilities for IT.

Astadia Chief Technology Officer Mike Lingo discusses what Cloud computing offers more specifically for the CIO:




Why is enterprise IT adopting Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing platforms are the antidote to many of the IT headaches associated with the traditional on-premise software model.

Cloud computing platforms, also known as platform as a service (PaaS), are making heroes out of IT by eliminating maintenance tasks and allowing business users to perform basic customization tasks, thus freeing IT to focus on innovation and creating true business value. That’s why the future of software begins with cloud computing.

With no software or hardware to buy, install, maintain, or upgrade, Cloud computing is a popular choice with IT organizations seeking to do more with less.

Cloud computing’s instant time to value and infrastructure independence is winning over even skeptical IT professionals, who worried about getting the security, customization, and integration capabilities required for a successful implementation.

Cloud computing applications branch out well beyond CRM. Salesforce.com customers are building more apps, and building better apps. All with less cost and less hassle, thanks to the Force.com cloud computing platform. Developers everywhere are using Force.com for business application development, creating cloud computing applications like enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resource management (HRM), and supply chain management (SCM).