Cloud computing: the lessons learned
December 12, 2012
Just a couple of years ago, some prominent analysts would have had us believe that cloud computing was poised to sweep all before it. Firms would be queuing up to fill roadside skips with newly-redundant hardware, and IT staff would be rede-ployed as strategic information workers, while server rooms would be refitted as high-tech breakouts or Google-esque “snugs”.
While there have been major advances in the use of the cloud, even its most ardent advocates would admit that take-up has not been as rapid or as far reaching as most had imagined…
Among 150 IT professionals in medium-to-large organisations surveyed by Computing, two-thirds have adopted some form of cloud computing (figure 1). But of those that have, more than half said adoption was “to a very limited extent” while just one in 20 had placed more than half of their operations in the cloud.
In particular, moving legacy and mission-critical applications to the cloud remains a minority pursuit. So what are the sticking points?…
Read more from the source @ http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/analysis/2230812/cloud-computing-the-lessons-learned