In the story of cloud computing, chapter one is playing out.
Low-hanging opportunities for public cloud have already been exploited by most organizations. “Front-office” applications, such as client inquiries (checking account balances, for example), social media, and digital shopping carts, make up a large portion of what has gone to public cloud.
These initial opportunities have validated the benefits of the cloud architectures, including speed of deployment, dynamic resource acquisition, application elasticity, and service reuse across workloads. Because of cloud, organizations are thinking about innovation, speed, deployment, new markets, and disruption in a new light.