Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

The end of the datacentre is nigh. That’s the view of AppZero’s CEO Greg O’Connor who says cloud computing will make datacentres in many cases redundant. This is because there is an ongoing titanic shift that’s about moving to the cloud, and this will require many companies to give up their datacentres as they are comparatively more expensive to own, run and manage than outsourcing to a cloud provider.

Cloud computing offers non-IT firms the ability to gain operational efficiency saving and access to expertise to allow them to focus on their own core business. With a datacentre they would need to hire skilled people to manage it, but with cloud computing they don’t need them…

Read more at: http://thestack.com/why-does-bezos-law-suggest-its-time-to-ditch-the-data-centre. Published by The Stack on 22nd August 2014.

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