From the course: Cloud Computing for the Digital Business
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Why a business needs the cloud to become digitally-enabled
From the course: Cloud Computing for the Digital Business
Why a business needs the cloud to become digitally-enabled
- We know that cloud computing has been around for many years and has become a core part of IT. So how exactly does it relate to the need for organizations to adopt digital technology? To understand how cloud computing will be part of the future of digital business, we first need to take a look at the past. The use of the internet as a medium for business automation in the late 1990s was followed about a decade later by the introduction of cloud computing. These both represent some of the most important and impactful milestones in the history of IT and business technology. Now fast forward another decade or so and we find ourselves with the introduction of digital transformation and the advent of digital technology adoption. This is the next major shift in both IT and business. So let's take a minute to think about this. Internet infrastructure reached a level of sophistication that enabled cloud computing as a field of…
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