How to Distinguish a Cloud Poser From a Cloud Pro

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Chris Preimsberger.

Debates over trusting an expert as opposed to someone who claims to be an expert happen every day across all industries—from car repair to IT—and this certainly includes anything involving the cloud. While cloud computing enables significant benefits for users to access applications from any computer, it has also created a new group of "cloud posers."

These posers are defined as inexperienced software developers who make bold (and often untrue) claims about the performance of the cloud-based applications they manage. Most of these posers work as independent consultants. On the surface, a poser may talk a good game and seem like a good choice to support an enterprise, but asking a few smart questions might just reveal his or her lack of expertise—and save you lots of grief…

To help you evaluate potential service providers, eWEEK, with input from Adam Stewart, vice president of engineering at IT management provider Autotask, provides important questions to ask before you start on the project…

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