Everything you need to know about cloud in just one tweet

March 13, 2015 Off By David
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Grazed from TechRepublic.  Author: Matt Asay.

There are lots of ways to explain the explosion of public cloud computing and the comparatively conservative growth of private cloud. We can talk about elasticity, shadow IT, and a number of other contributing factors.

But every once in a while, someone manages to sum up an argument in just one tweet, as Owen Rogers, a senior analyst with 451 Research, did this week. In fewer than 140 characters, Rogers said everything you need to know about why public cloud is the future of enterprise computing…


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Rogers, working on a cloud economics research paper for 451 Research, didn’t have complicated needs. He just wanted to get a price for some Microsoft technology in its private cloud. Exasperated by the result, Rogers summed up everything that the public cloud is intended to mean, and everything wrong with private cloud, in just one tweet:…

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