In the Rush to Cloud Computing, Here’s One Question Not Enough People are Asking
February 20, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
Many business and IT leaders get consumed in many questions: Should we go with private cloud? Public cloud? Hybrid model? What about our legacy systems? Where do we find the skills to make cloud happen? But there is another, even more important question that needs to be pondered before asking these questions, however. What are we actually trying to accomplish? In the headlong rush to cloud, not enough people are asking this question.
That’s the view of Dan Kusnetzky, founder of Kusnetzky Group and former IDC analyst, in a recent webcast at VIRTu Alley (sponsored by Dell). Too many organizations are jumping into cloud for cloud’s sake, and not thoroughly evaluating where the business value may be, he cautions…
In some ways, there really isn’t anything that new about cloud, he says. Rather, it’s “an outgrowth of several longstanding trends and, only a small amount of new technology in a slightly new way.” If anything, cloud is actually a new phase of IT outsourcing, Dan says, adding that “cloud computing is nothing more than the next step in outsourcing your IT operations,” the culmination of years of attempts to offload technology management to specialized third parties. All forms of outsourcing — including cloud — are intended to run IT in someone else’s data center…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2013/02/19/in-the-rush-to-cloud-computing-heres-one-question-not-enough-people-are-asking/