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Does the cloud itself drive business innovation?
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The cloud could drive innovation if an enterprise exploits it properly. Using on-demand scalable resources reduces the risk of funding the sandboxes required to test new ideas. Companies can slam-in and rip-out idea after idea (applications and services) given the reduced barriers to entry (i.e. the cost of deploying infrastructure). Lower barriers to entry and reduced risk should result in an increase of exploring and vetting new ideas which could result in driving business innovation.
Steve's answer is spot-on. Of course the cloud itself drives innovation: if you think about it, what stifles innovation is most often fear of failure (associated in part with fear of losing one's sunk investment). With cloud, you can invest relatively little as you experiment with ideas and with whole products. You can "fail fast", and more importantly, fail relatively cheaply. As Tom Peters likes to say, "more at-bats, more hits."
It only stands to reason that if you take away a number of the downsides of failure, you're bound to make people more likely to take risks and try things out: and that equates, at least some of the time, to spurring innovation.
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