THE VALUE OF CLOUD COMPUTING IN THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Without any doubt, cloud computing has become one of the most significant trends in any enterprise, not only for IT businesses. Besides the fact that the cloud can offer access to low cost, considerably flexible computing resources, cloud computing also provides the capacity to create a new relationship between business entities and corporate IT departments. The value added to the business environment is given by the balanced use of resources, offered by cloud computing. The cloud mentality includes the possibility to have access without storing or maintaining technologies. This leads not only to changing the way business is conducted, on an individual level, but it is also widely transforming purchase decision-making.