‘Analysis paralysis’ slowing down cloud adoption

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

During yesterday’s Reuters cloud panel discussion, executives talked about confusion and information overload in the cloud market that might be causing a bit of a growth stall, as businesses try to figure out their next moves. I agree, if only based on a couple emails I’ve gotten lately from IT admins struggling to suss out which vendor to go with given the rapid pace of change in the market.

It was John Engates, Rackspace’s CTO, who dubbed it “analysis paralysis.” Businesses are struggling to build their cloud strategies, including which vendor to choose and how to get started. “Things are in such a state of change right now I don’t think they can feel confident they’ve made the right decision at any point,” he said. “Every day there’s so much change coming at them. It’s happening at a lot of large enterprises, they don’t know who to partner with.”…

That aptly characterizes the sense I got from an email exchange I had with an advisor who works for the federal government and is trying to choose a platform-as-a-service provider. He said he was expecting to find more and stronger competition and sounded a bit concerned about going with relatively unknown startups. He wasn’t finding much help from the analyst firms either, in terms of up-to-date reports offering guidance…

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