Avnet Study Finds that Style over substance has caused “Cloud confusion”
September 28, 2012
Grazed from ARN. Author: Patrick Budmar.
Is the hype for the Cloud justified? If you ask Avnet A/NZ services general manager, Adam Chicktong, it is both a yes and no.
“I say ‘yes’ because the technology has advanced enough to enable this particular model of computing to be leveraged and consumerised in a way that was impossible before,” he said. The benefits of the Cloud typically include reduced costs, scalability, moving Capex to Opex, redundancy, and on-demand compute power as some of the advantages. “It has enabled business’ to develop and grow into areas they would not have been able to 15 years ago,” Chicktong said…
At the same time, Chicktong said ‘no’ because it is “just a continued evolution of a centralised computing model. You could easily argue that it is just a continuation of utility or grid computing through to ASPs [Application Service Providers] to Software-as-a-Service and hosting, through to Cloud,” he said…
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