The public cloud just got a new poster child

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Matt Asay.

Forget Netflix. While Amazon has been holding up the media giant for years as an example, Netflix never resonated with mainstream enterprises. Most companies simply aren’t ready to unleash chaos monkeys on their infrastructure. But GE? That’s a different story. In a surprisingly candid and punchy interview with InfoWorld, Chris Drumgoole, GE’s chief operations officer of Information Technology, dissed private clouds as merely "well-orchestrated virtualization" and declared GE will reduce its data center assets by 90% in favor of the public cloud. Is GE the new poster child for the public cloud?

Cloud is the new normal

Remember when public cloud was only suitable for development and test workloads? You don’t have to think back very far: there are plenty of vendors that still try to sell that story. The problem is that it’s not true and hasn’t been for some time. Just ask Gartner analyst Lydia Leong, who noted, "Out of ~20 government participants at my Gartner [Symposium] roundtable, only one hadn’t begun to use cloud," which represents a "Major change from last year." If the government is going into the cloud, everyone is…

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