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Business Agility and the Cloud

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A paper on how cloud technologies increase business agility

By Microsoft
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Published July 2011

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In the 1950s almost no organization owned a computer. Computing was consumed as a service rather than owned as a capital asset.

We find ourselves in a similar position today. Large computer companies with masses of compute resources and storage capacity are offering immensely scalable compute services on a pay-as-you-go and only-pay-for-what-you-use model. We send our computer programs to them and they run them for us.

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