Business IT has undergone a radical transformation in the last four years. Software as a Service (SaaS) has turned into "IT as a Service," and as this is being written, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are in a pricing war for cloud services.
If you run a Chicago area business, there are countless opportunities for you to streamline your operation. Migrate legacy processes off of old codebases and move them onto dynamically allocated resources on the cloud, and you'll be able to cut expenses ranging from electric bills to server maintenance costs and IT-related labor.
On top of cost reductions, shifting to a cloud-based methodology allows you greater flexibility; it's much easier to seed small projects when you've outsourced the hosting and server requirements to a cloud vendor; it's also easier to let half-baked ideas run their course and fail when the friction of getting them started is lower...and not all half-baked ideas are necessarily bad ones; see YouTube and Instagram for two that re-shaped how we use the web.
As someone who's a c-suite executive, your Chicago-area business is dependent on infrastructure; when you're freed from building out your own server room and can host on Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, or Google Compute, you can piggyback on larger businesses that absolutely must prioritize uptime, and are selling you excess server capacity in the most advanced server rooms on the planet.
In today's environment, cloud computing isn't just a promise of lower costs - it's a promise of better uptime, and the freedom to express strategic agility.
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