4 cloud realities to be thankful for

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

The rapid growth of cloud computing continues. As we implement systems, migrate applications, and move infrastructure to the cloud, proceedings seem to be going better than most people expected. I’m certainly thankful for that, but I’m particularly grateful for four developments this year.

First, I’m thankful that, for the most part, public cloud-based systems have done a good job of keeping outages to a minimum and avoiding data breaches. Despite the Microsoft Azure outage last week and a few other minor outages, public cloud providers have done a much better job at staying up and running than IT does with most internal enterprise systems…

Many commentators predicted widespread panic when massive cloud outages occurred. It hasn’t happened yet. However, according to most analysts, only 1 percent of our workloads are now in the cloud — so the effects of outages are still small…

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