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Summarized it can be said that cloud services can provide potential benefits in the
following areas:
Flexibility
Accessibility
Availability
Mobility
Planning Certainty
Cost-saving aspects
Big Data Opportunities
New market opportunities
Free resources in the company, respectively resource re-allocation
Enhanced performance in terms of computing power
Tobias Höllwarth (2013), CEO of Euro Cloud, concurs that cloud services can also
support the accomplishment of projects and thus reduce the time-to-market. He
further notes that the realization of innovation can happen faster, when using cloud
services.
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Potential Pitfalls & Dangers of Cloud Services
When speaking of cloud services, the terms “security” and “dependency” usually
come up immediately. The reason for companies’ cautious optimism towards new
technologies is often based on concerns about an intrusion into their eco-system, a
breach with the current status quo, or the addition of a variable without yet knowing
how to solve the equation.
According to Seher (2013) the “Vendor Lock-in” is an imminent threat for companies
that outsource business-relevant data and processes into the cloud. Companies find
themselves in a state of dependency (Schweighofer, 2013). They lose a certain
degree of their autonomy by allowing know-how, information and files to move from
on-premise into huge server farms. From this moment the company is depending
from a third-party provider, which is responsible for providing data on-demand,
