Where is the resistance to cloud computing?

Cloud computing remains the top IT investment focus of the 2012, according to a recent second consecutive year survey by Unisys. We have seen a lot of successful applications of cloud computing, such as the successful use of private cloud in the financial industry by the US Bank of America.

But doubts about cloud computing have never gone away, and many CIOs have taken a cool approach to cloud computing, and the spread of cloud computing has been limited. Summing up previous experience, cloud computing is not widely used in the following factors:

1. Safety. This is the skepticism that has been around since the advent of cloud computing. Perretta, a CIO at Road Bank, explores a private cloud that is more secure because of the two major features of cloud computing (abstraction of underlying hardware, automated application delivery). However, the public cloud because of the uncertainty of the location of information storage, security is difficult to secure. Gartner analyst Jay Heiser even warns that not to blindly follow the path to cloud computing must be clear-headed, "any customer can not be reckless of security issues." ”

2. Cloud computing poses a threat to existing IT staff positions. In the early days of cloud computing, there are often topics that cloud computing will affect the employment of existing IT staff. While this kind of discussion has weakened, it is still one of the things that enterprise IT departments are resistant to cloud computing.

3. Fear of losing control of it. Cloud computing, especially when the public cloud is adopted, enterprise it will migrate to the cloud, CIOs worry beyond reach, lose control of IT systems and support. Even IT leaders believe that keeping IT services inside the company can prove their importance to the company. Fear of losing control may be one reason it executives decide not to migrate to the cloud, says Michael Barr, head of business psychology at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and Michael Barr, a psychologist.

4. HR Department. Public clouds, and even all cloud computing projects, require the participation of employees familiar with cloud computing technology. For the HR department, this not only means looking for new employees, but also their difficulty is mainly in the lack of familiarity with cloud computing and the market's scramble for cloud computing talent.

5. Finance Department. Before cloud computing, the financial department of an enterprise has adapted and become accustomed to the IT software procurement model. But after the adoption of cloud computing, the traditional mode is no longer used, the Finance Department has to accept and learn the cloud computing procurement model. At present, cloud computing providers offer three payment models, which are paid by users, billed by usage, and billed as transactions. Whichever model is used, the finance department has to redesign the procurement process.

Of course, there are more than five factors hindering the wide spread of cloud computing, including hidden costs, lack of industry standards, low economic benefits, and lack of planning for it construction. But several analysts agree that cloud computing will grow more in 2012, such as Unisys's prediction of 32,012 years of cloud computing; IDC reports that IT industry will accelerate its shift toward technology such as mobile computing, cloud computing services, social networking and massive data analysis, Even by 2015, 20% of enterprise applications are related to clouds.

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