How to manage inflated cloud computing expectations
March 31, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Joe McKendrick.
The crew in the engine room of the Titanic really did a fantastic job of delivering top performance and keeping things running efficiently. But the ultimate success of the voyage depended on the ship’s crew up above — steering things safely in the right direction, taking advantage of all information available to them. IT, in many ways, is tasked with running the engine room, but then gets blamed when the ship runs into trouble.
The Titanic analogy came to mind when reading Philippe Abdoulaye’s account of a hypothetical (and likely composite) company that does all the right things with IT, and gets great results with its implementation. But the company is still running aground, and everyone is looking to IT, wondering why things aren’t going as planned. The good news is unlike the engine room crew of the ill-fated Titanic, IT leaders are in a position to influence the new course of the business — but they can’t do it alone…
In his case study, Abdoulaye, an IT consultant and author of Cloud Computing: Advanced Business and IT Strategies, presents a familiar challenge arising in many organizations: as cloud begins to take hold and is seen as the first option for the design and implementation of new business processes, expectations soar…
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