Advantages of cloud computing don’t always lead to IT progress

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jonathan Eunice.

The marketing pitch for cloud services includes a vision of a steady progression from in-house IT to the perfect, infinitely wise cloud that solves — or at least outsources — all of your IT problems. Every cloud vendor presentation includes some chart showing stages of customer evolution; higher levels of outsourcing invariably trend up and to the right. Buy infrastructure from the cloud (IaaS)? Good. Buy a full platform (PaaS)? Better! Buy your entire software stack from the cloud (SaaS)? Best!

Innovations routinely require evangelism to trigger mainstream user adoption. But while we admire the enthusiasm of cloud proselytizers, let’s recognize that change doesn’t always represent progress. Now, I love cloud computing. I use it regularly, both personally and professionally…

For developers, for startups establishing greenfield applications, for operators of services that need to scale very rapidly and without warning, for those requiring geographic reach for their data or apps and for many other use cases — cloud has numerous, irreplaceable benefits…

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