Cloud adoption driven by wrong motivators

Grazed from CloudPro.  Author: Jamie Hinks.

Cost shouldn’t be the sole driver of cloud technology with supplier and analysts claiming that its transformational qualities outstrip the savings it can provide companies with.  Cloud Pro reports that a number of suppliers and analysts have told them that the fact cloud isn’t causing a sea of change in individual companies could be potentially damaging in the long term.

“There has been no root and branch change in businesses IT operations. People have just become focused on moving the same process they ever had to a lower-cost platform like cloud,” said Neil Kinson, VP EMEA at Redwood Software…

Kinson thinks that moving workloads over to cloud servers has meant that back office staff are still working with the same manual interactions that wouldn’t be needed if cloud computing was implemented properly and therefore a lot of the value of the cloud is being lost…

Read more from the source @ http://www.itproportal.com/2013/11/29/cloud-adoption-driven-wrong-motivators/