Afraid of the cloud? How to handle your fears
May 1, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Sharon Gaudin.
A study released this week shows that 73% of IT executives believe cloud providers are hiding performance problems. Industry analysts say IT professionals are smart to be cautious, but added that they need to do their homework and ask the right questions before selecting a vendor.
"I don’t know if it’s a matter of distrust," said Jagdish Rebello, an analyst with IHS. "They are wary of the hype. The enterprise IT folks are being very, very cautious about their migration to the cloud. They see the cost benefits but when they look at reliability and security, there is essentially a fear of going wholeheartedly to the cloud."…
Enterprises are still fairly new to the cloud computing phenomenon, but have long read headlines about cloud outages and security breaches, which, said Rebello, is enough to make any executive nervous. "I’m not sure that cloud vendors are hiding information," Rebello said. "It could be more that there’s just a lot of information IT people don’t know. The comfort level is still missing."…
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