Is I.T. Getting Sick of “Cloud Computing”?
May 3, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: David Linthicum.
According to Forbes, IT is getting sick and tired of the cloud computing hype. “…the biggest threat to cloud-computing companies today is customer fatigue. Businesses are tired of hearing the tech industry squawk about whether this or that is a managed service or a faux cloud or a virtualized cumulonimbus cluster or a passing shower or black cloud of doom.”
I’m seeing a bit of this as well. While we’ve had many technologies emerge in the past, none were as game changing as cloud computing. Thus, it’s at the top of the news, the hot topic at most IT conferences, and a large part of internal discussions within IT organizations. Some have had enough after 4 or 5 years…
“A top tech executive from one of the world’s leading telecom providers voiced this frustration the other day by saying that he’s sick and tired of the intramural squabbles among IT companies over whether private clouds are superior to public clouds, and whether hybrids are really hybrids and are they all better or worse than on-premise platforms.”…
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