By George M. Tomko
Many cloud computing boosters use the selling point that establishing large amounts of storage or computing requires no “up-front capital investment”. Pleading before the gods of capital within corporations has been a bane for IT and business operations functions forever. All those appropriation request forms and cash flow analyses – not much fun [...]
By George M. Tomko:
As the hype continues regarding “Cloud Computing”, there are now tales from those who have recently experienced the current offerings of these services.
Also, there are more and more seasoned, veteran practitioners of information technology (“IT”) that have been at conferences, had prosepctive suppliers call on them and, in a number of cases, [...]
One side of the story is in this interesting discussion of the open source cloud options by Gary Richmond at Free Software magazine. Ultimately the “answer” lies in careful analysis of the type of project and risk profile. This is where experienced consultants earn their keep in helping customers wade through hype vs. fact.
