One of the areas that is usually impacted by cloud adoption in an organization is their IT staff. It necessarily does not lead to headcount reduction but over the years, cloud computing significantly reduces need for additional IT staff as seen at Gibbons P.C. law firm where they did not require additional IT staff over a 5 year period during with their business and number of attorneys grew significantly. SaaS is the primary mode of cloud adoption in law firms. They may be aware of advantages of adopting a private cloud to address their data security concerns but would still like to wait and watch before adopting IaaS or private cloud options.
By guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What you are saying is true, and it applies very well to a technology company like Amazon, which is effectively a cloud vendor. Does it apply as well to, say, people in other businesses and industries?
Mark talks about issues involved with coexistence of traditional licensing models and the new cloud models in the data centers of large organizations such as BMC, cost reduction by way of cloud adoption in SaaS and IaaS arenas, percentage of DC budgets getting diverted into Cloud adoption and impact of cloud adoption on IT organizations of large corporations.
Impact of Cloud Computing on existing enterprise IT infrastructure, IT staffing, workloads that cannot run in cloud etc.