Why IaaS Won’t Happen At Most Enterprises
February 6, 2014
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Jonathan Feldman.
After speaking last week on a webinar about government cloud computing and doing some thinking-out-loud with colleagues, I’ve come to the conclusion that infrastructure-as-a-service will get bypassed by platform-as-a-service at most enterprises — because infrastructure folks will continue to act as an impediment to progress.
The benefits of cloud computing are clear: Improved agility and efficiency through dynamic provisioning; and lower labor costs and more fault tolerance through automation. The private versus public cloud debate has been over for some time. There are use cases for each. But getting IaaS into your enterprise probably won’t happen soon…
This is, of course, more of an organizational change management problem than a technology problem. A slavish devotion to current and past practices seems to override the interest in the outcome: Business units getting what they need in a more agile, less expensive, more reliable way. Are there technical difficulties in getting there? Of course! But there were difficulties in deploying the enterprise IT infrastructure we have now. Last I checked, overcoming those difficulties is a key reason IT pay is significantly higher than for many other disciplines…
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