{"id":11131,"date":"2014-07-14T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T14:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3120743"},"modified":"2014-07-14T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T14:32:31","slug":"psst-the-cloud-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/psst-the-cloud-is-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Psst \u2013 the Cloud Is Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

What inspired this piece is \u201cComplicating the Cloud,\u201d a recent, insightful article by industry guru Jeff Kaplan. Kaplan makes a number of trenchant points, many of them coalescing around the idea that the vendor community has a vested interest in complexity. That meshes with my belief that it really is easy to get into the cloud — if the decision makers don’t allow the vendors to make it difficult.
\nHere’s what Kaplan has to say: “I have to admit that the cloud industry is doing a great job of making it increasingly difficult for… corporate decision makers to feel confident about making the move,” he writes. “The initial success of the cloud movement has created a series of problems. First, there’s the proliferation of players… some of whom rebrand or \u2018cloud-wash’ legacy systems for this new market… [They want to] join the \u2018cloud rush,’ [by] adding more solutions to their portfolios…” And these tendencies, as he sees them, have made migration to the cloud needlessly convoluted. <\/p>\n

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What inspired this piece is “Complicating the Cloud,” a recent, insightful article by industry guru Jeff Kaplan. Kaplan makes a number of trenchant points, many of them coalescing around the idea that the vendor community has a vested interest in complexity. That meshes with my belief that it really is easy to get into the cloud — if the decision makers don’t allow the vendors to make it difficult.
\nHere’s what Kaplan has to say: “I have to admit that the cloud industry is doing a great job of making it increasingly difficult for… corporate decision makers to feel confident about making the move,” he writes. “The initial success of the cloud movement has created a series of problems. First, there’s the proliferation of players… some of whom rebrand or ‘cloud-wash’ legacy systems for this new market… [They want to] join the ‘cloud rush,’ [by] adding more solutions to their portfolios…” And these tendencies, as he sees them, have made migration to the cloud needlessly convoluted. <\/p>\n

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