I’m going to stir the pot a bit here and suggest that a reasonable percentage of businesses considering cloud deployments have their heads in the sand over where their problems really lay.
In short, any company that sees cloud – public cloud – as a solution to becoming more flexible and cost competitive don’t actually understand the real problem they’re facing.
That problem? Business/IT alignment.
One of the oft-touted advantages of public cloud is that it’s about enabling businesses to react more quickly to changing IT requirements than their own IT departments do.
How many people can honestly look at that description and think that the solution is to cut off the IT limb from the business body?
The solution – the real solution – is to address whatever divide there is between the business and IT. And have no doubt – if blame is to be laid it will likely need to be laid with equal measure at both the feet of IT and the rest of the business.
Shifting to public cloud instead says that the business itself is unwilling to seriously look at its own function, behaviour and attitudes and address real issues. It’s the business hoping for an “abracadabra” solution rather than working on a real solution.
It’s like having an arterial bleed, and sticking a bandaid on it.