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Migration to Cloud? Just marketing buzz or useful?

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:23AM   Printer-friendly
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microtodd writes:

In the wake of Cisco's announcement of entering the cloud market, there are several business case analyses that provide insight into whether the cloud is a good thing or not. Of course there are always competing factors between management and IT, which usually boils down to short-term vs long-term cost and financials vs technicals. What do the Soylenters think? Is the cost savings worth the security risks? Are the technical benefits of reliability worth delegating some administrative control?

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by mvar on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:50PM

    by mvar (2539) on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:50PM (#21049)

    I wouldnt go so far regarding "what happens if..." scenarios, usually a service provider doesn't go bust next day. What i'd be more worried would be loss of connectivity to the provider due to some cable issue etc. Most companies that I've worked with that consider "moving to the cloud" haven't even thought of this simple case. For the average enterprise (medium to small), this risk plus the monthly cost for an FO & backup line doesnt justify (yet) the cost savings from moving to the "cloud"

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