Blame a bad cloud deployment on the CIO, not the provider
December 21, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
Good CIOs don’t blame vendors for their problems. After all, they’re the ones who validate the technology, build the larger plan, and understand the market forces. When failures occur, these CIOs look at their own organizations. Cloud computing brought to light a lot more technologies for IT to complain about. In some cases, CIOs now in production with cloud platforms are finding that their expectations aren’t being met.
Indeed, a recent CIO Australia article reports on discussions at a panel of government CIOs at a recent cloud conference. The reporter discovered that "everyone’s talking about cloud computing, but some government CIOs are still not convinced, arguing that the market is still immature — with one saying that some vendors are simply ‘repackaging’ outsourcing services."…
Earth to CIOs: Most cloud providers are, indeed, "repackaging" and outsourcing services. Why? Because they wanted to get in the cloud market as soon as they could, so they pushed their stuff to an as-a-service model, without changing much of the offering. Typically, most are missing multitenant capabilities, security services, governance, and management. Guess what? Those are not cloud products, even if they have big enterprise brand names…
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