Beware: 7 Sins of Cloud Computing

Grazed from Wired. Author: Jake Gardner.

Why seven? Why not?! While none of these problem areas align with the so-called deadly sins, the reality is that each represents a real challenge that can arise in many organizations, whether enterprises or SMBs, when it comes to implementing and maintaining a cloud architecture. These are universal challenges. While each is not an ultimate, insurmountable hurdle to adoption, thinking about how each of these is wrong, or at least misguided, is a smart way to navigate toward successful cloud strategy and implementation.

1. Organizational ignorance: Cloud is a hot concept for many businesses. In the last year, the emphasis on cloud computing as the go-to solution for infrastructure needs has propelled it to the forefront of the IT discussion, with many believing it will eventually become the way IT operates at a baseline…

However, the road to implementation is still fraught with difficulties and competing agendas in many organizations. Similarly, given the boom in the space, the parallel growth of cloud providers has lead many vendors to offer services that might not be best suited to a company’s strategic and operational requirements, simply because the sale can be an easy one. With a lack of internal understanding, or even a reticence by internal staff to provide a comprehensive reasoning for cloud (for fear of losing their jobs), chief decision makers are often not working with all the facts that could provide them with best reasons for or against cloud implementation…

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