10 reasons to divorce the cloud
For some companies, using cloud services isn’t what they hoped or expected it to be. Reason’s like these might be enough to make them leave. 1. Your costs went out of the control. This can be significant. Prices go up and go down. A new product gets introduced that might be more financially attractive—but only if you started from that point and not if you include the added cost of migration (documentation, security and other audit) not to mention re-budgeting and rate of return over the lifecycle of the data flows. 2. Security was tougher than you thought. You were probably smart and already had extensive key control, but perhaps your cloud vendor wanted it done their way. Asset control, the cost of embedding security control planes and audit infrastructure that duplicates data center standards created a duopoly of security infrastructure—perhaps both equal but not the same—adding to costs of control, training, documentation, audit and more. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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