New Enterprise paradigm is Cloud + Apps

| January 21, 2011 | Comments (1)

CLoud + Apps
A growing storm of enterprise apps is blowing in wind bringing with it new provisioning models.

“We’ll see a move away from the ‘build’ to the ‘buy’ mentality, as many enterprises move away from custom to packaged applications,” said Rikke Helms, managing director of the Global Telecom division and vice president of the EMEA region for Antenna Software. CIOs will soon be buying apps the same way they buy MP3s now: from an app store.

“The parallels between music and cloud computing are eerily similar when it comes to format (mp3 vs. OVF), enabler (mp3 player vs. virtualization), and the delivery system (network vs. cloud),” pointed out Pat O’Day, co-founder and CTO of BlueLock, a provider of cloud hosting and managed IT services.

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About Onuora Amobi: Onuora Amobi is the founder and CEO of Nnigma, a leading online marketing firm headquartered in Pasadena, California. A Microsoft MVP with close to two decades of IT experience, he is also the co-author of the Windows 7 Deployment Guide for small businesses and IT Professionals(http://www.windows7deploymentguide.com). View author profile.