The public cloud plateau
October 23, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
"The enthusiasm for getting everything out of your data center and into the public cloud is starting to wane." That’s the assessment from Eric Hanselman (pictured), chief analyst at the 451 Research Group based on his latest study on cloud computing usage trends, which he presented this week at Cloud Connect in Chicago.
The interest among enterprises in public cloud computing platforms has grown steadily over the last couple of years in 451’s survey it commissions every few months. In the latest round though, the interest in public IaaS resources has begun to level off. Instead of growing again, IT directors of Fortune 2000 companies interviewed by 451 are no more likely today to explore IaaS compared to four months prior…
What explains this "plateau"? For one, it’s a natural evolution for new technologies, Hanselman says. Exciting new products and services come on to the market, people get interested in them, and then they realize that it’s not all its hyped up to be…
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