January 20, 2010
Why CIOs and CFOs are Learning to Love the Cloud: Gartner Comments in Silicon.com Article
There's a good article over at Silicon.com today on "Why CIOs and CFOs are Learning to Love the Cloud."In the article, Gartner analyst Dave Aron says that virtualization, cloud computing and web 2.0 technologies are at the top of CIO investment agendas in 2010.
Among the reasons he cites for growing adoption of cloud computing-based IT solutions are cost savings ("doing more with what you've got as opposed to continually driving for less"), relative maturity of both the cloud and web 2.0 technologies ("they're more ready for prime time... not just marketing hype") and the desire to move "certain infrastructure or management responsibilities and capabilities outside" of the organization.
You can read the whole article here:
Silicon.com: Why CIOs and CFOs are Learning to Love the Cloud
You're probably aware that Proofpoint has some similar resources. If you'd like to learn more about this trend as it related to email security and email archiving, check out the whitepapers available as a free download from:
Enterprise SaaS and cloud computing issues are also the subject of Proofpoint's next live web seminar, being held on Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Learn more and register at the following link:
SaaS and the Global 2000: Best Practices for Deploying Security-as-a-Service
