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Cloud Hype and de-Hype
I had been reading about Gartner’s prediction that 1 out of every 5 businesses were going to dump all of their physical IT infrastructure when Sammy Migues sent me a thread from LinkedIn about it. The thread contained many of the common sense views about Cloud Computing that you’d expect: IT should be based on strategic value and should outsource the commodity pieces. That day, I was also reading about the Forrester survey that states that 43% of their respondants said that they had no interest in cloud storage and another 43% (perhaps the same 43%) had no plans adopt it.
Some of the difference in these two reports has to do with hype versus reality. I recall in “the naughts” that SOA was touted as a way for IT to bring business agility. Then all of the vendors got on the SOA band-wagon. Now it seems like Cloud has taken up where SOA left off in terms of hype. On the reality side, I wish I could tell whether the lag is because of people’s increased awareness of security (the optimist) or whether it’s a reflection of the sorry state of storage implementations (the pessimist).
