It won't happen overnight. But my prediction is that eventually the providers will, after grabbing the non-complex mass market, start going after industry verticals. They'll start with the low-hanging fruit (i.e. smaller firms that exist in just one jurisdiction). They'll get a bunch of lawyers, talk to regulators and so on, and start marketing a 'certified' solution for that industry - possibly with some level of indemnification.
It's definitely customers who are pushing the "cloud" thing - even in some large FSI corps that I've colleagues in are pushing this. They're turning to their current outsourcers and asking "why can't I get the same flexibility/pricing/etc from you that I can get from Amazon?" "Why does it take you 6 weeks to give me a server whereas Amazon can give me one in 2 hours?" and so on. It's going to be a huge issue for HP/CSC/IBM, which is why they're scrambling to put together their own cloud offerings. VMWare's also sniffing around - touting their services business as a replacement for incumbent outsourcers. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2013 1:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Microsoft's 'Blue' servers Hmmm, sounds like MS' approach is that they've decided that The Cloud is unavoidable, or will at least represent the "sensible choice" in future For dev and test environments, sure, and maybe smaller enterprises without regulatory requirements and/or no budget to spare for private infrastructure, but throw in any kind of data security and integrity - particularly anything that has implications related to storing information in other global jurisdictions - and I just get the feeling that it won't take off as much as everyone would have us believe. I'm also becoming less convinced of Microsoft's capability to respond to customer requirements, although to be honest that's exhibiting more in the consumer end at the moment than business. I'm not known as any kind of trend-predictor or tech commentator, though, so I'm just stating my gut feelings :-) On 4 June 2013 15:52, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: They will never position it as something you HAVE to do or else (like Google). They are developing the technology so that when you're ready, it will be ready for your needs. The Cloud leader will be the one that can show "why" it makes sense to move, not that moving is the only choice. Sent from Microsoft Surface Pro From: James Rankin Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 9:33 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> But the expectation is that "years later" everyone will go cloud-based of some sort? I can see that not flying for a lot of orgs - if MS take the "shove it down your throat regardless" option they did with some of the Win8 features, it might change the landscape somewhat Just my ill-informed and quickly-formulated opinion :-) On 4 June 2013 15:27, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Microsoft wants to drive you to the cloud. Some people will settle on a single version of the software and then move years later. There is no ostensible requirement to keep pace with Microsoft.
