Road to Cloud Computing Obscured by Confusion, Marketing Hype

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Wayne Rash.

Ask pretty much anybody who is in the process of moving some business operations to the cloud exactly what they think the cloud is, and the chances are you’ll get a different answer from each one. This is, as you might expect, a problem when it comes to moving critical business functions to the cloud. "The cloud doesn’t have to mean the public cloud," Margaret Dawson told eWEEK in an interview at the Interop conference here.

Dawson, who is Hewlett-Packard’s vice president of product marketing and a cloud evangelist" for the company said that the misunderstandings of what the cloud is and how it works play a significant role in slowing cloud adoption for many companies. This is because a surprisingly large number of people assume "the cloud" means the "public cloud." In reality, Dawson said, most companies don’t, and shouldn’t, use the public cloud for their operations…

The public cloud has performance issues, security challenges and risks that far exceed levels that most companies are willing to accept. But she also noted that many, perhaps most, companies can make good use of private clouds. She also suggested that there are a number of situations in which companies can benefit from using hybrid clouds, so that some work is done in the cloud, while critical processes remain in the data center…

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