The top 3 reasons to fire your public cloud provider

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Most companies are now in the second phase of their relationship with cloud computing. They’ve done the experimental stuff, and that worked. Now, they are moving to implementation and mass migration. Perhaps it’s no surprise then that today I find enterprises are a bit pickier about what their public cloud providers, well, provide.

I’m hearing more complaints about the relationships between enterprises and public cloud providers as enterprises move from what’s new and exciting to dealing with the issues that arise in any production system. When it comes to the finer details and the friction of vendor relationships, the cloud is no different than traditional IT systems. In some cases, this means you need to cut loose your public cloud providere. Here are the top three reasons to do so, from what I see on the front lines…

Reason 1: Prices go up, service goes down

Think of your cable TV provider and the changes that happened in that industry: Once you were hooked, prices kept rising and customer service declined. Some public cloud providers — SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS — are following the same script. They are slowly raising prices on the key services even as they offer more teaser-tier discounts to get new customers…

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