01900nas a2200121   4500008004100000022001400041245007100055210006800126260004200194520148800236100001801724856003601742       2010                        eng d  a1913-610200aCloud Computing: What is it, and How Will it Affect Organizations?0 aCloud Computing What is it and How Will it Affect Organizations  aOttawabTalent First Networkc04/20103 aWe believe that, in the not too distant future, most people will be making use of cloud computing. How they use the clouds will vary, but everyone will be using the cloud. It is expected that cloud computing will follow a similar path as the Internet into the corporate environment:

- there will be concern about security associated with data 

- there will be concern about being dependent on services that are controlled by third parties 

- many organizations will be challenged by existing corporate processes 

- some organizations will be leaders in the charge while other will lag 

For entrepreneurial businesses, this means that cloud computing can represent business opportunities to: i) reduce costs by leveraging cloud environments to provide infrastructure and services; ii) bring an expanded portfolio of products to a global marketplace through reduced costs to access large complex infrastructure; and iii) start small and expand services quickly and economically.

This article presents extracts from literature that has been published on cloud computing and provides a brief outline of a common cloud computing taxonomy used to define the cloud. After reading this article, you should have a better understanding of the basics behind cloud computing, the reasons for the large potential savings, the key challenges organizations face when implementing cloud computing, as well as the paradigm shift that cloud computing represents to organizations. 
 1 aWaldner, Fred  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/340