“The Future of Enterprise IT in the Cloud”, di Jamie Erbes, Hamid R. Motahari-Nezhad, Sven Graupner, in IEEE Computer, May 2012.

“For many decades, IT was largely shielded inside an enterprise. Enterprises used traditional ways to map their internal business needs to the IT processes and systems that they built, operated, and maintained in-house. Although IT vendors still cater to this closed ecosystem, new trends— cloud services, mobile consumer devices, and increased cross-enterprise collaboration—challenge the fundamental assumption of shielded IT in a closed enterprise.”