Ten Cloud Computing Trends

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As adoption of the cloudcontinues to grow, the wayorganizations use suchservices is also evolving.Many companies are alreadyimplementing a businessstrategy, leveraging the cloudwherever it is the best fit.Below are ten trendsorganizations need to thinkabout when embarking onthe cloud journey.

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1. Increasing agility and business innovationGain more insights into customers' unique challenges, industries, andpreferences, and apply agile approaches to help them achieve theirbusiness objectives, with new cloud solutions.

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2. Resolving security and privacy issuesProtect data in the cloud by enforcing password and single sign-onpolicies, choosing a data storage location with strict regulations, andexploring private cloud deployments and private editions of the publiccloud.

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3. Delivering a consistent user experienceSimplify and streamline user and buyer experiences by wrapping cloudsolutions around different systems and behaviors – and bringingeverything together in an engagement cycle.

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4. Providing a common platform for innovationExtend your existing investments and quickly respond to new innovationsby supporting mobile, social, and Big Data applications on a commonplatform in the cloud.

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5. Supporting collaboration in a business contextEmbed collaboration into cloud and on-premise systems – helping thedelivery models to converge and providing business context forsuccessful knowledge transfer.

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6. Turning data into actionable informationCollect, analyze, and disseminate information faster and easier withcloud technology.

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7. Providing real-time and predictive informationGive business users the insight to assess a myriad of scenarios to detectthe right course of action – and then have the agility to be able to adaptto, or capitalize, on these changes – with a cloud platform that providesthe base for such innovation and agility, and predictive capabilities.

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8. Enabling the business network effectLeverage solutions designed for the networked economy to ensureinteraction between all stakeholders – employees, partners, and vendors.

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9. Adopting a Platform as a Service (PaaS) deliverymodelManage different cloud environments with a consistent management frame-work, tools, and user experience by converging to one platform that candrive innovation as well as provide integration to your existing landscape.

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10. Creating a hybrid cloudTake a strategic approach to cloud adoption by determining what datayou want to move to the cloud, public or private – and what data shouldremain in on-premise systems – to avoid unnecessary businessdisruptions and support customers’ needs.

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