Change your company culture and get onto the cloud

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Technology issues don’t typically stop cloud implementations. More often than not, it’s the people. Office politics, unrealistic expectations, and general stupidity are the common culprits that hinder cloud computing use at many enterprises. The vocal opponents to cloud computing we heard in 2008 are mostly quiet in 2014.

However, they are still lurking. Today, they use closed-door conversations to call the cloud into question, often for the wrong reasons. By doing so, they create a toxic culture around the use of cloud computing — or any new technologies that may prove to be innovative and helpful but threaten the status quo…

Today, cloud computing has real momentum. Projects are beginning to ramp up, despite opposition around the use of public cloud resources. However, if a business pushes cloud computing onto an IT culture that simply won’t have it, the project becomes so difficult that it is likely to fail…

Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/change-your-company-culture-and-get-the-cloud-240197

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