Dr Hassim said Gulf Air was one of the first airlines to go to the cloud. While it has reduced both existing IT and management costs and helped the company avoid some previously inevitable future costs, the biggest driver of the programme and where the biggest benefits have come were in “being able to meet the demands of the rapid growth of the business.”
The UK government is using the cloud to streamline and open up the procurement process for public IT contracts and standardise the platform to get better value for less cost for the tax payer.
Barry Childe, the head of research and innovation, global markets technology, HSBC who offered his personal insight into how the cloud is changing business.
Speaking at the Cloud Europe Expo, Jack said he saw data security, licensing costs and customer confidence in availability as being the three key issues the cloud industry needs to sort out
One prediction we liked in this week’s Avistar story was BYOD (bring your own device). As many IT professionals will tell you, increasingly more contractors expect to have their own laptops, netbooks and tablets on-site.