Research and Markets Offers Report: The Truth About Cloud Computing: Adoption Strategies, Security, and Reliability.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Truth About Cloud Computing: Adoption Strategies, Security, and Reliability" report to its offerings.

In a release, Research and Markets noted that report highlights include:

Cloud computing technology - the process of replacing existing in-house services and resources with cloud-based (Internet) resources and services - holds many promising benefits. They include lower costs, scalability, flexibility, freedom from software maintenance, and pricing structures that are a continuous expense - rather than an up-front huge capital expense at the time of purchase. There are also many perceived - and some real - risks associated with cloud computing. How can you separate the realistic potential benefits of cloud computing from mere media hype?

The Truth About Cloud Computing: Adoption Strategies, Security, and Reliability delivers a comprehensive assessment of cloud computing's actual strengths, weaknesses, benefits, and risks. You receive 258 pages packed with balanced insight and opinion, presented by a diverse group of industry experts, real-world practitioners and cutting-edge service providers. You gather the expertise you need to determine where (or if) cloud computing fits in your firm's overall business-technology strategy and how to begin the adoption process.

This report will help you:

-Gain a greater understanding of the cloud computing environment so that you may make more rapid decisions

-Think strategically, not tactically, about how your organization wants to leverage technology

-Launch a traditional due diligence process to determine your cloud computing adoption strategy

-Leverage cloud computing to reduce hardware and application software maintenance and update issues

-Identify opportunities to mix and match services

-Discover why -- contrary to popular belief -- cloud computing's security benefits outweigh its security risks

-Dispel the eight common myths regarding software-as-a-service

-Avoid purchasing servers, software, data center space, or network equipment, instead buying these resources as a lower-cost, fully outsourced service

-Scale on-demand to meet peak and uncertain computing demands

Report information:

researchandmarkets.com/research/b94dc4/the_truth_about_cl

((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))