Daily Telegraph heads for the Cloud
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Britain’s oldest newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, decided recently to implement a “cloud adoption strategy.” Telegraph CTO Toby Wright says the shift allows the newspaper to “offer more value to its readers” and plans to go cloud-based with all new business ventures of the 155 year old paper.
Facing financial pressures common to many industries today (and particularly harsh among newspapers), the transition to cloud computing frees large amounts of capital for the cash-hungry media company – capital previously committed to IT infrastructure. And it redefines the role of IT, helping IT professionals focus on strategy rather than as a cost center providing operational support.
The Telegraph provides an instructive lesson in how rapidly the business world is changing and how imperative it is to move to an IT approach that supports it.
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