7 Great Unsolved Mysteries of Cloud Computing
January 30, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
There has been no shortage of assumptions made and confusion about cloud computing, along with boatloads of conventional wisdom. But the rise of cloud brings with it some so far unanswerable questions. Here are just seven of the great unsolved mysteries that are accompanying the great cloud computing migration of the 2010s:
1) Who really pays for cloud? This is a tangle in and of itself. In surveys I have seen and conducted, it’s all over the place. IT departments pay for a lot of it, and a lot of it is put on corporate credit cards. As a result, the costs get hidden or buried within corporate budgets. Another issue — when the holder of the corporate credit card tied to a cloud account leaves the company, guess what? The subscription is jeopardized…
2) Is cloud really cheaper in the long run? There is a lot of evidence that no, cloud often is not cheaper than buying on-premises software and systems when looking over a five-year horizon. Why? Companies keep paying monthly subscription fees for something they never own…
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