Users have misconceptions about the scope of cloud computing

The 2012 is considered to be the year when cloud computing is beginning to fade to business.

This is not to say that cloud computing will disappear. The opposite is true-it's becoming more common, common to businesses that are already commonplace to it users, and even forgetting to be using cloud software.

Over the past three months we have conducted an industry survey of the "ubiquitous cloud":

A lot of people are using the cloud, but they don't have that sense at all. According to a survey conducted by Microsoft in Canada to 705 companies, we can see that 19% of them think that their company does not use cloud services, the solutions and services that require cloud computing, because it was a survey initiated by Microsoft, and some people suggested Users may not be able to determine whether certain services are within the cloud, such as Microsoft's Web applications, Microsoft Office365 and Windows Azure's "cloud" service. In fact, the number 19% may be too low. Just as a simple example, everyone uses an online demo service, such as Onweb,citrix, of course, Microsoft's Live Meeting? Is this delivered from the cloud? How many companies are there to use Gmail and calendar functions? Does the user care whether the application they are using is running in the IT department or in the cloud?

The clouds weave into new technical measures. There is an assumption that "cloud computing" as a category will continue to grow. But is this supposed to be? No company plans to take or subscribe to the cloud simply because it is "cloud". Instead, it's all about the application, and how they fit into the business. Even venture capitalists have not come up with these distinctions. The Peach Tree Consultancy survey shows that cloud computing technology is expected to grow more than half of its investment in the next three years. However, Barb Darrow looked at the results and wondered how cloud computing could sustain growth while corporate software shrank. Is it a cloud rather than an enterprise software delivery platform?

The IT department is pushing the cloud. Faced with all this messy cloud computing, no matter what the cloud serves. Just as computers eventually become the responsibility of the IT department, so will cloud management. A survey of 257 Oracle users found that the management teams of private and public clouds have been strengthened over the past year, reflecting the importance of the cloud within the enterprise. IT managers are increasingly playing a leading role in managing and identifying cloud resources within and outside their own enterprise.

Cloud will be deeper into the enterprise, there will be a lot of corresponding problems. For example, who will eventually pay to build cloud services and run a business unit for many others to use? How will this be decided? The company will continue to study its security carefully-for its own private cloud as well as the public cloud. Finally, management issues, not the purchase of cloud services in the enterprise part of the business how to integrate into the overall structure of the enterprise.