The Importance of Community Clouds

Global Issues Affect All the Competing Organizations and Not Just OneIn a globalized economy certain natural disasters and other events like war affect every organization in a particular market segment and not just one specific organization. This emphasizes the need of community clouds so that these issues like disaster recovery, business continuity can be tackled at the same time.

For example, Verizon Communications has sealed a $6.7 billion deal with long-distance provider MCI. Nevertheless, they used to have about 220 different billing systems and it took lot of investment energy to converge these disparate legacy systems. The same story should be true for most of the mega mergers. During the actual cost of these kind of merging systems are unknown, one of the article on this subject high lights the pain in consolidating the legacy systems afterwards the merger.

These provide another strong case for building Community Clouds which will provide the best utilization of massive computing resources resulting in overall service improvement for the clients.