E-Business and Innovation @ Lancaster University

Cloud Computing Lecture-Guest Lecture from IBM

John Easton - an IT Executive and Technical Leader at IBM - gave a well-received talk on the business challenges of cloud computing to EBIN and ITMOC students as well as faculty. He stressed how cloud computing responds to IT customers’ need to do more with a lot less, i.e. reduce capital expenditures and operational expenses, by switching to a pay-per-use IT delivery model. He also discussed cloud computing in terms of reducing risk, providing higher quality services and breakthrough agility.  However, an issue is market maturity as well as the legal and political contexts of cloud, or ‘cloudification’