Keith Langmead (4/5/2013)I think at times the fault lies with the perceived notion that cloud hosting is the obvious way everything is going, that it has no issues, and everything will be better in the cloud. The providers tend to prey on issues we see in our own setups, server crashes, hardware failures, time and money spent on backups etc, and tell us none of those things will be an issue if we move our data to them. Of course the reality isn't that straight forward.
Very well said! Vendors continue to try and sell us the "silver bullet" that will solve it all. But none exists. We have to take into consideration with each decision about cloud issues, is this really the appropriate place for the data/application and/or the right use of resources to support and operate it? Everything should not be cloud. And the historic idea that all roads lead to Rome ignores the fact that all roads also lead away from Rome as well. Or there are things that should go there, and things that should not or should leave there.
Sorry for the ramble but you are spot on.
M.
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