The Three Great Lies of Cloud Computing
It’s elastic! It’s on-demand! It scales dynamically to meet your needs! It streamlines your operations, gives you persistent access to data, and it’s always, always cheaper. It’s cloud computing, and it’s here to save your enterprise.
And yet, for all the promise of cloud, there are still segments of IT, such as HPC and many categories of big data analytics, that have been resistant to wholesale outsourcing to public cloud resources. At present cloud computing makes up only 2.4% of the HPC market by revenue, and although Intersect360 Research is forecast its growth at a robust 10.9%, that still keeps …
The Three Great Lies of Cloud Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.