Busting cloud myths: Four user instances where cloud computing failed
September 5, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
Cloud computing can help enterprises cut costs, innovate and make their businesses more agile – but only when implemented correctly. Many organisations are not thinking their cloud strategies through, warns Gary Barnett, chief analyst at Ovum.
“I am a huge fan of cloud but cloud is not magic,” Barnett told delegates attending the Westminster eForum seminar on cloud computing on 4 September. “I know of instances where cloud can be more complicated, more costly and less secure,” he said…
Failure over IT complexity
Cloud applications exist in the infrastructure of most organisations. However, the organisations do not get rid of the existing legacy infrastructure and, as a result, "they are adding more layers to their IT and making it more complex", according to Barnett…
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