Monday, July 6, 2009

The Case Against Cloud Computing

If you haven't yet read Bernard Golden's 5-part series entitled The Case Against Cloud Computing, I highly, highly recommend it!

According to Golden, the five key impediments are:
* Current enterprise apps can't be migrated conveniently
* Risk: Legal, regulatory, and business
* Difficulty of managing cloud applications
* Lack of SLA
* Lack of cost advantage for cloud computing

He spends quite a bit of time discussing why many of these arguments are moot or incorrect. Ultimately, this is a very positive series discussing why Golden believes that Cloud computing (and, therefore, SaaS as well in my opinion) will emerge as the dominant model in IT services.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Conclusion

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