It’s hosting, dammit: Fed up with fake cloud providers
November 6, 2012
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
According to a CIO survey by hosting provider ElasticHosts, "83 percent of companies are frustrated with having to cut through marketing hype to find out which solutions are genuine cloud offerings and which are merely conventional hosting services with the word ‘cloud’ added to the title." Good ol’ cloud-washing in action!
Two-thirds of the survey’s respondents had been offered "cloud" services that are fixed-term, 40 percent had been offered services that weren’t elastic or scalable, and 32 percent were offered services that weren’t even self-service. (Keep in mind that a provider did this survey, so selfish interests are in play.)…
Still, it’s hardly a secret that most of the services that bear the "cloud computing" label are warmed-over hosting technologies that do not provide the core attributes of cloud computing, including self- and auto-provisioning, elasticity, and even pay-per-use. The good news is that customers can tell the difference, but they resent having to dig down to find out if the vendor is trying to fool them…
Read more from the source @ http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/its-hosting-dammit-fed-fake-cloud-providers-206384