Cloud Computing Is All About Trust

Grazed from WindowsITPro. Author: Pete Thurrott.

As we move more and more of our data and computing infrastructure into the cloud, the primary concern in many ways moves from technical concerns around performance, functionality, and the like to something more basic, even primal: trust. And when it comes to the cloud, it’s all about trust.

Oddly enough, trust might be a Microsoft strong point moving forward, especially when you consider that 58 percent of the firm’s revenues currently come from its enterprise customers. Those customers don’t just occupy the pole position in Microsoft’s customer list. They represent its primary growth opportunity as the company moves forward into its devices and services future…

Microsoft, to date, has proven to be a trusted partner in getting these customers online in the first place, in connecting their PCs and servers to each other and to those of its partners. Microsoft has pushed forward with on-premises infrastructure when doing so made the most sense and is now offering a hybrid strategy that will get customers over the humps—conceptual and technical—needed to get them to the cloud more fully. All along the way, the firm has proven itself, and again, and again, to be trustworthy. We can quibble with specific products and strategies, of course. But it’s hard to argue with the broad results…

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