It’s become really unfashionable to own anything anymore. Plenty of us are renting houses, driving cars on short term finance and reading our news online instead of from a newspaper. Focusing on ‘use’ instead of ‘ownership’ has advantages – for example, it can be cheaper more flexible to share resources instead.
In the world of ICT this translates to adopting ‘cloud’ – essentially harnessing the benefits of modern internet access to do away with the need for large IT departments and expensive hardware. Better still, cloud computing is having a ‘levelling-out’ affect in terms of providing small and micro sized business with the same capabilities as their corporate giant competitors.
Getting your computing services from the internet in the same way that you might consume a utility such as gas and water sounds like a no-brainer. However, the process of transferring to this new way of doing things is fraught with danger and sometimes it pays to take back control.
Learn more by attending our jargon-free workshop - an introductory course to the concept of cloud computing, which explores some of the practical opportunities, merits and pitfalls compared to outright ICT ownership. Learn about new trends as well as how to profit from this growing phenomenon as well as the questions you should be asking during procurement.
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