The New and Dangerous Threat to Cloud Computing

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Bob Evans.

No, it’s not security, and it’s not privacy. It’s not speed of provisioning, rogue credit-card purchases for skunk-works projects, or even integration hairballs.  No, 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.

They are tired of hearing what the NIST’s definition of a cloud is or isn’t, and whether the solution that’s best for their global systems does or does not comply with the definitions of some self-appointed experts whose only certainty is that they’ll capriciously change their definitions to match the prevailing winds…

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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