From the course: Make IT Work in Your Business
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The cloud
- [Presenter] Sometimes the right solution is not to buy a solution at all but to subscribe to someone else's solution. Everyone that leases a building or pays monthly for electricity has already embraced this concept. Can you imagine factories in the Industrial Revolution asking, "Is it a good idea for us to outsource our electricity needs? Electricity is too important to our everyday operation. Can we trust someone to provide that if they aren't fully invested in what we're trying to do?" But eventually they went along with the idea. They even gave electricity providers a clever nickname. They called them "the Grid." And from private homes to massive enterprises, we've been getting our electricity from the grid ever since. The same conversation is being had in companies everywhere when it comes to aspects of their IT functions. And again, we gave it a name. We have the grid for our electricity. And for IT, we have "the Cloud." Now, to be fair, the available options for the cloud go…
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