Vendors being pushed into cloud, kicking and screaming?

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The problem is...

Being dragged and forced into a new technology will ultimately lead to massive reforms later.
You will see a few Fortune 500 companies lose control of their data and sue the stuffing out of the cloud vendor. All of a sudden client data ownership and security will get fixed but to late for some of the smaller companies that didn't have the legal edge as the Fortune 500 companies. There won't be any standards set until the market place has shaken all of the little players out. This means consumer choice will be extremely narrow.

Few industry leaders fully understand the cost/benefit analysis with cloud computing. The legal, economic, and social aspects of the technology have not been confronted by large numbers of consumers yet and this means the consumers will have to bear the full brunt of the market adjustments.

Few people understand where computing in the cloud makes sense and were it doesn't. Which means a lot of mistakes will occur that don't need to occur and cloud computing in general runs the risk of being branded as the next biggest flop.

For example:
A small company might save a little bit of money by only hiring 1-5 people to do IT. These people would manage the Cloud Vendors and support a small data storage and back up strategy. E-mail, office software, and communications could be handled by the Cloud and the companies private information could be served and stored on a local system that has a good back up strategy. You would see some savings but you can't just get rid of your entire IT infrastructure with out some real bullet proof contracts, and technology.

Many small businesses will try to follow the giants on to the Cloud and ultimately realize to late they needed to keep some of their proprietary data off the Cloud.

Again Cloud technology can be used to improve business but a real understanding of what it can do and what it can not do is important for decision makers to understand.

So far I don't see any real understanding. I haven't seen any real change in the Cloud Vendors product offerings either. They still have horrible TOS and EULAs. They provide limited support and liability. Basically they are just sitting back, offering the least amount of service for the maximum price and waiting for the suckers to come on in and buy.

P.T. Barnum claimed there was a sucker born every minute. He was right and cloud computing is in danger of looking like a sucker bet.

Posted by: mr1972   Posted on: 06/22/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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