Monday, January 25, 2010

Reasons that Keep CIO's away from public Clouds

For a while I have been thinking why should some of the CIO's in spite of understanding the advantages of the mammoth concept of Cloud computing say "No" or take a wait and watch position on Public clouds. Most of them accept the fact that the public cloud is one form which can very well support the enterprises on its overall economic goals. Beyond the cost aspect they are clearly aware of the innovation capabilities that a cloud computing platform can provide and thereby increasing their reach to their end customers or consumers multifold. Still there are strong reasons for them to keep away. The predominant ones what i believe are

1. Data relocation
2. Data Ownership
3. Vendor lock in
4. Loss of control of infrastructure
5. And finally Legitimate contracts

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