Cloud computing is a 'natural evolution'

Cloud computing is the next step in business technology, it is said.

Keith Gnaney, the managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for i365, spoke to PublicTechnology.net about the evolving popularity of cloud computing and associated applications such as time billing software.

He explained that unless a business replaces an ageing application such as legacy customer relationship management, the best option may be to simply connect to the cloud.

Mr Gnaney believes that by connecting to such virtualised spaces, organisations get access to a wide range of cloud-based services such as "elastic compute and storage capacity", while firms can also utilise useful applications including data protection, remote disaster recovery and archiving.

"These cloud-connected services add to on-premise applications and infrastructure rather than replacing them," he concluded. "Cloud-connected services represent an evolutionary step from on-premise computing towards pure, utility-based cloud computing."

It follows a report from Gartner in recent months which described cloud computing as one of the firm's top ten strategic technologies of 2010.

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