Asian Cloud Computing fueled by lack of legacy IT
Integrating Cloud Computing solutions with existing legacy enterprise systems is not a trivial challenge.
The amount of legacy IT in the West presents an opportunity for China and other developing Asian countries to deploy Cloud Computing more aggressively, according to many discussions at a recent Cloud get-together in Shanghai that featured speakers and attendees from several parts of the world.
“Legacy IT impedes the move to Cloud,” stated Anand Ramachandran, Head of Enterprise Cloud Application Practice, Wipro. Ramachandran, who is based in Bangalore, India, said he has seen Cloud Computing growing so quickly in Asia that “we’re moving beyond standard objections…(and) Cloud providers are thinking in terms of getting paid a percentage of each transaction” rather than a fee based on computing resource usage.
He also noted that there are now a number of accounting questions being asked by prospective cloud deployers, in addition to technical questions, and that it behooves organizations “to get your smartest IT person and smartest financial person together” to discuss how to go about deploying Cloud.
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