What’s wrong with the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2012?

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Mark Eisenberg.

The Gartner Hype Cycle is a powerful tool for understanding where new technologies are with regard to their acceptance in the mainstream. And Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2012 report raises some interesting — and often confusing — points for cloud computing adoption.

There is a big difference between the description of phases of the cycle on the curve, such as "Trough of Disillusionment," and the report’s table of contents, which labels sections by describing the transition between phases. The curve shows Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) on the upslope of the trough, yet Gartner places it in a section titled "Sliding in to the Trough." This creates two very different perceptions…

Another challenge in applying the cloud hype curve to the cloud adoption market is that the report takes a high-level approach to various technologies and bundles them into the overall cloud discussion. Unfortunately, this approach is so broad that it encompasses technologies that are not uniquely cloud-related, such as hosted email. By definition, the National Institute on Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) cloud service models — SaaS, PaaS and IaaS — are further split into subcategories, such as Database as a Service (DBaaS) and Business Process as a Service (BPaaS), that don’t add any specific value to the analysis. In retrospect, DBaaS should be identified as a component of PaaS, and BPaaS should be included in SaaS. While these divisions may be interesting to some audiences, they obscure the state of adoption of core cloud technologies…

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