DailyPost 2921
CLOUD NINE…
What the best of IT companies could not achieve in the best of times, the pandemic did for them. The doubts about the cloud were put to rest and it was touted to be the solution to tech infra woes. The pandemic environment put you locked up while the world operated on the cloud. Mostly, no serious thought was given to it and business went flocking to the cloud, as if everything was hunky dory there and once having moved on to cloud there would be nothing to bother you and you could do your business in the best possible manner booking maximum profits.
That everything else would get wiped out in that sector and only cloud will prevail has been sold, bought and closed as an excellently marketed story. But that was not to happen. The myths, misconceptions and depth of real utility started coming out in the open. Now so many years down the line the cloud has become just a business strategy. How do we describe the current cloud phase? It is a phase shift between widespread cloud adoption and the emerging trend of ‘Cloud Exit’, with most businesses settling in between depending on the ease, cost, comfort, control and flexibility including innovation.
What is the current status and direction in which cloud adoption is moving? Around 42% of the organisations in the US in the Citrix survey are either considering or already have moved at least half of their cloud workloads back to on-premises infrastructures. This is termed as cloud exit. It happens because it allows businesses to regain control, reducing unwarranted dependence and restrictions of major cloud providers and to lower costs. ‘Cloud is not a charity’; despite benefiting from cost efficiencies in large-scale operations, cloud providers keep making their pockets deeper.
A handful of giant monopolistic corporations run the global cloud market and dictate it too, they are able to influence everything from pricing to technology innovation. Security vulnerabilities, performance issues like outages clearly help us understand the wide open crevices in the cloud services. Gartner sold the cloud lock, stock and barrel. Its 2019 audacious prediction was that 80% of enterprises would shut down their traditional data centers by 2025 and would get subsumed in the cloud. The businesses are now approaching the cloud with a balanced perspective.
ALL TECH MARVELS HAVE THEIR BUSINESS VICES, CLOUD IN NO DIFFERENT.
Sanjay Sahay
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