Cloud Conspiracy Review: End of the road for new technology, proclaims newspaper
July 7, 2014
Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications. Author: Scott M. Fulton.
No revolution happens fast enough for the spectators. At the dawn of a technology revolution, its practitioners trumpet its existence by telling you that [insert catalyst here] is changing your world in a very short span of time. Stage two of the PR campaign shifts into shame mode by telling you how long it’s been since the revolution began–months and months now–and why haven’t you and your business gotten on board already? You can tell when a revolution is settling down into a normal evolutionary pattern when the survivors begin crawling out of the trenches to tell you the whole revolution thing was a sham to begin with.
The Move to the Cloud, announced The New York Times (by way of Boston.com, which you can read without running into the NYT’s firewall), has struck some ruts in the road and stalled. Here’s the story so far, in summary: 1) The Open Data Center Alliance published a survey (.PDF) of some 118 of its own members, where only eight percent of those members (maybe nine organizations total) said more than 50 percent of their infrastructure is in public clouds…
When asked what may be the limiting factors in their adoption of cloud models, two-thirds of responding organizations checked the box for, "Concerns about security of our data."…
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