In Part 1 and Part 2 of Cloud Wars:Â Friendly Fire, we
covered some of the challenges cloud advocates and early adopters
are experiencing within their own organization as well as some of
the reasons that they may be receiving pushback. In this third and
final segment of the series, we'll cover some additional challenges
and offer some potential strategies to work around or work with
your IT department that might help you move ahead in your adoption
of cloud computing.
"Can you wait six months?...
It's important to know that while the challenges I listed in Cloud Wars: Friendly Fire - Part 1 are very real, the core IT department is behaving that way for some very good reasons. They are struggling with not only the transition to cloud, mobile devices, big data, SaaS and social media but also with trying to do so while under a lot of duress due to economy-driven budget and headcount cuts. Being the sole caretakers of so many diverse mission critical technologies, applications and data in...
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Battles over formats and standards in the technology industry
aren't new. Whether it was e-mail, word processing, graphical
images or even some more current like the apps on your smart phone,
each new innovation typically starts out somewhat proprietary and
incompatible.
Today we live in a world where a lot of those battles have been fought and won while some are only starting to heat up. Formats tend to resolve themselves through standards so that things like e-mail and web pages "just work."...Read More »
Today we live in a world where a lot of those battles have been fought and won while some are only starting to heat up. Formats tend to resolve themselves through standards so that things like e-mail and web pages "just work."...Read More »
The Cloud Wars have already begun and as in all
conflicts, the most unfortunate incidents are caused by friendly
fire. From a cloud computing perspective, it occurs most often when
people who want to try or have tried public or hybrid cloud are
challenged by peers or counterparts in their own
companies.Â
I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenges my fellow
technologists have experienced in trying to sell their public,
private or hybrid cloud initiative inside an organization. I also
realized...
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