DISQUS

TomBasham · 1 year ago

Interesting post, I think you're right, existing investments are definitely a barrier to wholesale migrations to a cloud model. This does however provide a migration path for those organisations that are investigating cloud options for the provision of services.

At the moment there aren't too many services available from the cloud in a cost effective way - at least from the big players that large enterprises will look to deal with. At the moment we're finding that our desire for cloud type solutions far outweighs the markets ability to deliver them. As existing on-premise services start to age I think we'll see a service-by-service migration to those cloud services that are mature and have a cost effective billing model. For some services this will work out well, but for others the market won't be ready and the services will enter another life/depreciation cycle as on-premise solutions. It's great to see VMWare et al creating solutions that will help enterprises build their solutions in a way that will support and enable cloud computing in future.

Tom (twitter.com/tombasham)

maydbs · 1 year ago

Interesting. Definitely the ones after better resources for their move into the cloud will be more prepared and assisted, with less possibilities of dealing with future security flaws or even, as you well put, high costs to do it. And even this article being extremely centered on companies, it's also important to notice the final users move into the cloud: will eventually Web OS serve the final user just as in good terms as companies services? will final users have their space and security for their own data?

Justin Grant · 11 months ago

Thanks for a really great, insightful post. I like your point on traditional organisations with a sunk investment in infrastructure having a barrier to shift into the realm of cloud computing. It made me realise that the cloud can harbour agile organisations, that leverage meta-data trends from the web to target their services, then as the niche dies down and becomes less profitable, they can quickly move onto targeting the next hot spot. Large enterprises simply can move that quickly, so this is a good strategic opportunity for SMEs.

Mikhail Malamud · 10 months ago

Key flaw in this argument is that enterprises do very little new project development and that they are happy with their existing infrastructure. Many customers I work with do have very high barrier of exit but they do not want to just get up and move. Instead they are looking if new projects are good cloud candidates and many are. Secondly, there are number of clients who have outsourced their operations to companies like CSC or big indian pureplays are not particularly happy. There is substantial pain that makes them look at the cloud over again.