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Cloud rEvolution: The Cloud Effect (Volume 3)

Where once it was important to understand the “network effect” of the Internet on your business, today it’s the “cloud effect.”  The cloud effect is the influence of cloud computing -– of on-demand, elastic, pay-per-use IT -– on IT and the business.  This influence is significant and far-reaching, for when a fixed asset like a computer becomes variable and on demand, all sorts of agility and new cost structures open up.  

Cloud rEvolution: The Cloud Effect, now available on csc.com, explores six cloud effects impacting IT and business:

1. The Stack Transforms to Services

2. Structural Deepening Expands the Cloud Ecosystem

3. Cloud Enables New IT Options

4. Mega Data Centers Power It All

5. Cloudonomics Provide Financial Incentive  

6. Cloud Drives Business Value