Cloud adoption: Why you have to get the measure of scalability

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Lori MacVittie.

Surveys, polls, research — organisations conduct all three to try to take the pulse of the market and understand where a particular technology might be in terms of adoption. This is the second year that Northbridge Ventures conducted its Future of Cloud Computing survey and, like most cloud-related surveys, the results offer up interesting titbits in terms of trends and data points — especially when compared with previous years’ findings.

The inhibitors remain fairly constant — security still tops the list — but the drivers have changed over the past year. Where last year agility topped the chart, followed closely by scalability and cost factors, this year scalability moved past agility and cost actually decreased in significance as a driver for the cloud. What’s interesting and frustrating about these kinds of summary surveys is the lack of definition of categories. Scalability and agility are as nebulous and open to interpretation as security, which makes it difficult to understand exactly what aspect of cloud is driving or inhibiting adoption…

Scalability as it relates to cloud is a multi-headed beast — three, to be exact, like the chimera of ancient legend. Scalability can refer to applications, which are probably the first thing you thought of, but in the context of cloud it can also refer to scale of operations or the business…

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