Hi everyone,
Although I’m still mostly out of the office, this post was already in the pipeline and I thought it might be useful to get it out.
“Going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going to the cloud” might also mean locking your operations to a specific cloud provider, whose proprietary services will now be part of your business processes “forever”. Be specific which variant of cloud you are signing off on!
My main fear is that under the guise of ‘cloud as a commodity’ we are gluing ourselves to specific suppliers, without realizing that they are not in fact supplying commodity services.
In the post ‘The cloud’ is not just servers. ‘Going to the cloud’ could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor I go into more detail on this.
I hope this post can be useful to you personally, or that you could usefully share this with decision makers who might not be too aware of the different kinds of ways of “going to the cloud”!
Bert