In Big Companies, The Public Cloud Is Leaving The Private Cloud In The Dust
June 4, 2014
Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Matt Asay.
For years we’ve been told that enterprises wouldn’t put their sensitive data into the public cloud, particularly Amazon Web Services. We’ve been reminded, over and over, that companies value control and security too much to entrust their applications to someone else’s public data center.
Then when it became clear that Amazon’s cloud business was exploding, we were told enterprises were only running dev and test workloads there. The good stuff was still running behind the firewall, and always would. Today, it’s clear that such reasoning is flawed and completely out-of-whack with actual enterprise computing trend, which heavily favor public cloud computing…
How did the experts get cloud so amazingly, patently wrong? Because in our rush to listen to what enterprises said they wanted, we failed to focus on what they demonstrably do, which is to buy convenience…
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