The three potential killers of cloud computing

I've never shied from talking about the benefits of cloud computing, but we also have to face the downside of cloud computing. Interestingly, the disadvantages associated with the success of cloud computing are often irrelevant to technology, and if you are not careful to treat them, they are likely to ruin the company's cloud planning. These adverse factors are as follows.

Expectations are too high. Less than one weeks ago, the same analyst raised cloud computing growth to a level unheard of in it, saying the cloud would reach $ tens of billions of trillion by 2012 or 2014. I suspect that many of these numbers have nothing to do with cloud computing, and that some big tech-listed companies are trying to bleach themselves with the cloud in order to raise their share prices.

These irrational expectations have the potential to make cloud computing go astray. The cloud computing industry is doing well, but if you separate it from other related technologies, its growth curve isn't really steep.

No innovation and strategic lag. I'm very much in the way of Hewlett-Packard's recent leap to cloud computing because it's too late to implement it. However, we see that many other companies are now doing the same leap and seem to regard cloud computing as a very safe bet. But note: In a market that has already been dominated by major manufacturers, it is impossible to find an open space, much less expected to see a big increase. In my prediction, we will see some major failures in the cloud computing market in the next few years, but this is not because the cloud computing technology itself is not good. Instead, we are blaming the behind-the-scenes strategy makers and the perpetrators.

The private cloud and data center are badly confused. Private cloud is a logical architecture that leverages the benefits of many public clouds in the enterprise's own IT infrastructure. This is not to say that everything in the Enterprise data Center can be loaded into a private cloud, even a set of virtualized servers. The cloud has some very specific features that are not covered in this article. But if a business doesn't design and create its own IT infrastructure carefully, it won't be a cloud.

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