Business professionals are unconvinced by cloud computing, failing to see the benefits of the technology for enhancing their working lives.
Research by Rise shows that 91 per cent of end users fail to share the enthusiasm for cloud shown by IT leaders, questioning its security and relevance to their jobs. The majority of respondents say that the level of education from the cloud suppliers is poor, and this must change if the concept is to become universally accepted.
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The recent Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit ‘hosted’ by the 451 Group in London had an interesting line-up of speakers. Those from the end-user community – including senior IT execs – had very mixed views. In particular, the challenges of creating synergies between assorted cloud-hosted applications, and between cloud and on-premise applications, seemed to have been largely overlooked in the somewhat ‘Wild West’ rush to the could. One guy said he wished the CEOs would stop reading the economist.
The notion that the ITC industry is driving the whole cloud trend for the sole benefit of the end users should be treated with great scepticism.
Does anyone seriously believe that the huge investments going in to cloud infrastructure will be met ultimately by anyone other than the end users?
But the momentum cannot be ignored. Vector itself now offers its Issue Tracking, License Management and Change Management in fully hosted and serviced mode, for those customers committed to taking every app they can to the cloud.
Useful insight, thanks Colin. The idea, at this stage, that cloud is driven by anything other than cost, is laughable. It’s like the businesses who offshored their call centres and tried to claim the quality of service would improve (vindicated by the movement to bring call centres back to the UK, such as announced by Santander this week). Can cloud help a business be more flexible and deliver useful service to customers? Absolutely, but this is the next stage of maturity and has little relevance today.