A year ago, both Gartner and TIF recommended that large corporations like ours should hold tight for 3-5 years and watch what's happening with the cloud market. They reckoned we could still deliver Messaging & Collaboration services more efficiently with an inhouse model because of the economies of scale we can leverage through our sheer user numbers. In 3-5 years, competition between the big players in the market will have driven down cloud services pricing and we'd then be in a good position to migrate.
However, looking at the stats, it looks like the time to act is now. More than ever, I think we made the right decision to take the risk and move now. The cloud is THE next big thing for messaging & collaboration and companies, big and small, are heading there as we speak. Yes it is still early days for the bigger end of the scale, but it definitely looks like those 50,000+ companies will be very close on our heels. And hey, doesn't it feel good to pioneer for once as opposed to follow the tested, well known and proven route?
Cheesy as it sounds, it's certainly a brilliant time to be part of EUT and I can't wait to get our first users into the cloud.
But for now, that's all folks :p
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