How AWS can conquer enterprise IT’s resistance to public clouds

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Amazon Web Services’ Reinvent conference this week is sold out — not surprising, given AWS’s strong adoption by small and medium-sized businesses for infrastructure cloud services (IaaS) and its growth in platform services (PaaS).

But as successful as AWS has become, many Global 2000 enterprises still refuse to put their processes and data on the AWS public IaaS cloud. I call them the Folded-Arm Gang: IT staffers in larger companies who quickly point out that AWS, or any public cloud, is not ready for enterprise-cloud computing. The Folded-Arm Gang doesn’t consider any public cloud to be reliable, secure, or safe…

To date, only about 30 percent of AWS’s business is with larger enterprises. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the adoption by Global 2000 enterprises seems to be growing, as big IT moves from testing and deployment of very small workloads to mission-critical processing. Despite the resistance of the Folded-Arm Gang, tight budgets drive much of this movement, along with AWS’s ability to prove itself over the last few years, despite a few well-publicized outages…

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