Clearing the Air: The Current and Projected State of Public Cloud Computing Adoption

▤ Summary

Over the last few weeks, we’ve taken a look at several of the key differentiators that distinguish on-premise CRM systems from their cloud-based counterparts, delving into some of the major elements—including infrastructure, scaling, and cost requirements—characterizing each scenario, helping executives drive more informed decision-making before making a final investment. Key players in this space include Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, all of which provide improved flexibility over on-premise systems for organizations who require agility and scalability to meet a variety of market demands. While Johnson & Johnson’s massive cloud adoption can be attributed primarily to a need for robust research functionality, with unique and wide-reaching requirements ranging from genome-sequencing capabilities to disease pathway analyses and new medical device development, other companies requiring a similarity flexible deployment environment—where additional servers can be added and leveraged to scale support with demand, facilitating even the most computer-intensive tasks—are realizing the power of cloud computing as well, with the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts leveraging it to perform cancer research. Before the advent of the cloud, supporting such use case scenarios—characterized by frequent surges in demand followed by periods of relative downtime—would mean requesting and reserving a timeslot on a government supercomputer, or—for companies with access to a greater cash flow—developing and designing a personal computing cluster that often went unused throughout the year. In fact, in early 2016, Dropbox acknowledged migrating 90 percent of its operations back onto its internal data systems and away from its previously deployed Amazon cloud platform.

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