After looking at this snippet I decided to read the full paper from Appirio. It actually says that 68% of "cloud adopters" expect to have the majority of their data and applications in the cloud within three years.
What we are not told is the actual % of cloud adopters amongst medium and large enterprises. So, 68% of some subset of medium and large enterprises are racing to the cloud - not bad - but not the marketplace as a whole either.
Since "cloud adopters" are also early adopters, it comes as no surprise that they are rapidly moving to the cloud and will be done in three years. They are also doing it because they intuitively understand that the cloud is the right thing to do, and they know that even if it is at best a break even proposition today, they will be the first to arrive at the true benefits. Or, perhaps, they are solving something more problematic than others may be enduring, like poorly designed home grown applications, legacy application that are ready to cycle out, lack of capital for data center expansion, or any other of the many drivers that sends you to the cloud for a solution.
Also, cloud adoption is slowed primarily by security concerns, and two concurrent activities are solving this problem on a daily basis. One, IT organizations are winding up their early evaluations and figuring out what they can immediately live with in a cloud solution. Second, improved security solutions are racing to market to solve these concerns associated with cloud based solutions, so more and more cloud capabilities are now deemed secure. This trend will continue until security is no longer the blanket excuse for not becoming cloudy, and instead wide spread adoption will be governed by capacity, conversion capability, business case process and analysis, and the orderly march to the next generation of computing infrastructure.
I have a golden rule of IT technology adoption: It always happens, and it always happens slower than the industry pundits suggest. Cloud computing is no different. As a matter of fact, it is very supportive of my golden rule of IT Technology, and is behaving in the usual, predictable fashion. Every time someone tries to convince me otherwise, I think about IBM, the mainframe, and the many occasions it was pronounced dead. I went to that funeral twenty years ago and it is still growing strong. How about the AS/400? Same story.
Now is an exciting time to be in information technology. What excites me about cloud computing is that it is an approach to computing service delivery that is driving significant technology investment and the promise of significant returns. And, it is being delivered in the crucible of the open market, not by government edict, or with central planning, but with the chaos and creative destruction that only capitalism can provide.
What we are not told is the actual % of cloud adopters amongst medium and large enterprises. So, 68% of some subset of medium and large enterprises are racing to the cloud - not bad - but not the marketplace as a whole either.
Since "cloud adopters" are also early adopters, it comes as no surprise that they are rapidly moving to the cloud and will be done in three years. They are also doing it because they intuitively understand that the cloud is the right thing to do, and they know that even if it is at best a break even proposition today, they will be the first to arrive at the true benefits. Or, perhaps, they are solving something more problematic than others may be enduring, like poorly designed home grown applications, legacy application that are ready to cycle out, lack of capital for data center expansion, or any other of the many drivers that sends you to the cloud for a solution.
Also, cloud adoption is slowed primarily by security concerns, and two concurrent activities are solving this problem on a daily basis. One, IT organizations are winding up their early evaluations and figuring out what they can immediately live with in a cloud solution. Second, improved security solutions are racing to market to solve these concerns associated with cloud based solutions, so more and more cloud capabilities are now deemed secure. This trend will continue until security is no longer the blanket excuse for not becoming cloudy, and instead wide spread adoption will be governed by capacity, conversion capability, business case process and analysis, and the orderly march to the next generation of computing infrastructure.
I have a golden rule of IT technology adoption: It always happens, and it always happens slower than the industry pundits suggest. Cloud computing is no different. As a matter of fact, it is very supportive of my golden rule of IT Technology, and is behaving in the usual, predictable fashion. Every time someone tries to convince me otherwise, I think about IBM, the mainframe, and the many occasions it was pronounced dead. I went to that funeral twenty years ago and it is still growing strong. How about the AS/400? Same story.
Now is an exciting time to be in information technology. What excites me about cloud computing is that it is an approach to computing service delivery that is driving significant technology investment and the promise of significant returns. And, it is being delivered in the crucible of the open market, not by government edict, or with central planning, but with the chaos and creative destruction that only capitalism can provide.
