Cloud Service Providers need to practice what they preach

Grazed from BusinessTech.  Author: Editorial Staff.

There’s a perception that cloud computing has a fuzzy “edge” that makes it difficult to tell where being online ends and the cloud starts.  This makes it easy for the unscrupulous to pull the wool over the eyes of the uninformed and pass off online solutions as being in the cloud.

And because so many IT managers and CTOs don’t really understand the cloud, it is easy to sell them solutions that don’t match even the most basic criteria of being a cloud solution.  What are these criteria? At the most basic level, a cloud solution must be:

• immensely scalable on demand;
• immediately flexible;
• only pay for what you use when you use it…

In most cases solution providers aren’t willfully misrepresenting their solutions. Part of the problem is that those designing and implementing these supposed “cloud solutions” don’t comprehend cloud computing, its capabilities, and what makes a cloud solution.  How could they, when they don’t inhabit the cloud themselves? It takes more than a DropBox folder to place an organisation in the cloud…

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