Cloud adoption underestimated?
Summary: 'The industry estimates are wrong. They're low. You can write that down.'
Is cloud adoption a lot more pervasive than generally assumed?
BIll McCracken, CEO of CA Technologies, believes it is, as relayed in an article by CRN's Chad Berndston:
"The rate and pace is going to pick up. The industry estimates are wrong. They're low. You can write that down. It's growing faster and moving faster than we're predicting. The opportunity is standing in front of us."
McCracken's remarks were made at a CA Partner confab. You could say that the remarks were cheerleading for the troops, who CA is depending on to advance its cloud computing and as-a-service solutions.
But it's interesting to see a vendor that has spent decades selling into on-premises data centers (a still sells lots of mainframe products) talk about this new shift.
Indeed, the private cloud movement may be happening at all levels under the radar. I've been involved in survey research (PDF download) that looked at cloud adoption among members of the Independent Oracle Users Group, and we found that 44% of organizations in the survey already have a private cloud—either already running or are piloting, planning or considering one. Adoption of private clouds will expand significantly over the next 12 months. At this time, 37% report that at least some piece of their organization’s IT workload processing or infrastructure is already available through private cloud services, a number that will likely grow to 50% by next year. Public cloud, however, is a bit slower to catch on -- about 14% use the services of public cloud platform providers,
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I believe it. Interesting to see the shift with CA.
RE: Cloud adoption underestimated?
I don't agree... I think more and more people are getting leery about the idea of putting all your eggs in one basket out in traffic out of reach... Look at the present web trend between stealing of certificates and security breeches from big players out there understand when the target goes from say 2-3 billion users down to some handful of cloud companies it will be much easier to take down and disrupt businesses. Another thing to take into consideration is as of present say something goes wrong with a user it typically causes problems for that user alone. If there is an issue with some software in the cloud and things go down... You get to watch your whole company sit around and wait for things to be resolved.
Like they say don't put all your eggs in one basket, and now better yet leaving it in traffic hoping it won't get run over.
RE: Cloud adoption underestimated?
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Well, to be honest many organizations have always had a private network, often with web services. And that was happening even before we coined the horrific "cloud" name. If you call those "private clouds" then yes you would be correct.
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I am with you.
This "Cloud" blah, blah is getting boring, is just another buzzword like "Post-Pc", something cool sounding for the bloggers to write.
Agree
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totally agreed.
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How is private cloud defined
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http://dexterclass.blogspot.com/2010/03/cloud-computing.html
Steve Dietch of HP: Cloud adoption 5x faster than expected
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Agreed, looks more like all the companies that are trying to push this BS are not seeing everyone bending over hand and foot to get to the cloud... Seems more like marketing hoping that more fools will head to the cloud.
Good to see just how safe data and personal data is on the "cloud" just as Sony has proven recently and Comodo
http://www.scmagazineus.com/two-more-comodo-resellers-owned-in-ssl-hack/article/199620/
People would have to be outright brain dead to believe that it is a safe practice... Then again we see just how many people pay for trendy crap like Apple. Don't get me wrong I think Apple's products are nice but very much over priced.