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So an IT director doesn't want to outsource IT to the cloud? Shocking :-) And I guess they didn't talk about private clouds at the conference.

• johngalt 16y ago
  It may surprise you, but some people have trouble being responsible for things they have no control over. When outsourcing to the 'cloud' works it's evidence that internal IT is flawed. When outsourcing doesn't work it's evidence that internal IT is flawed.
  • njharman 16y ago
    > being responsible for things they have no control over. You have control over the cloud. More so than you have over the manufactures of the chips and other components that go into your servers, or the engineers who wrote the firmware for your router, or the Product manager of the OS you use, or etc. etc. It's a copout strawman argument.
  • toddh 16y ago
    No surprise at all, but we are all continually depending on things we have no control over, hardware, software, people, networks, politics, disasters, health, etc. In the cloud you have the option of a private cloud, which is a lot of control with a better operations model. There are several clouds to select from, some are less wild west than Amazon, so you do have control in your selection criteria, your negotiated SLAs, your negotiated support plan, your architecture and deployment policies, your disaster and recovery and redundancy plans, and your strategies for moving to another cloud. So you have a very high degree of control if you think about it, act to take it, and make smart decisions. What you can't do is just move an enterprise wholesale into the cloud, but that's a good thing.