10 Things We’ve Learned About Cloud Computing, So Far
April 15, 2015
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
Cloud computing — in its current form — has been around for well over a decade now. While it takes on many dimensions, the earliest roots of current-day cloud formations can be traced back to 1999 with the launch of Salesforce.com, and to 2004,with the first Amazon Web Services offering.
With all this activity going on year after, enterprises have accumulated some key lessons on what cloud is and is not all about. So, what have we learned, more than a decade in?…
1) It works. A decade on, with organizations of all sizes, from the Forbes 500 to mom-and-pop shops adopting cloud for mission-critical functions, it can be said that the cloud computing model is working well. Yes, there have been highly publicized outages among cloud providers — but it probably only adds up to a fraction of the outages suffered in on-premises data centers…
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