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Four Out of Five Folks Not Quite Sure What the Cloud Is

Well, maybe not that bad

Well, maybe not that bad but in the wake of a couple of gatherings, I’ve been looking into overall cloud understanding in the market/industry.

We all know that there is still significant confusion surrounding cloud computing driven by vendor claims, lack of standards and it being a *relatively* new technology tool for business.  I’ll let the links do most of the talking  but it is interesting to watch the videos and hear all the different opinions on what is cloud computing over the years.

And it’s not just trade show attendees – the Proofpoint & Osterman Research conducted in August of 2009 showed that, ‘40 percent of the IT professionals surveyed said they were still confused by the term.’

From the 2009 Version One research, ‘two-thirds of senior business executives and 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they "don’t know" what cloud computing is.’  And the Chadwick Martin Bailey survey from earlier this year indicates ‘24 percent of polled IT decision-makers were not able to define cloud computing.’ At least the percentages are getting better as time passes but there’s still a good chunk of uncertainty even amongst IT pros and decision makers.

The Links:

Solution?  Time.  With anything new (even if it’s just a new term to describe something old) it takes time for the dust to settle, for people to fully grasp and for the industry to clearly communicate what it all means.

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Peter Silva covers security for F5’s Technical Marketing Team. After working in Professional Theatre for 10 years, Peter decided to change careers. Starting out with a small VAR selling Netopia routers and the Instant Internet box, he soon became one of the first six Internet Specialists for AT&T managing customers on the original ATT WorldNet network.

Now having his Telco background he moved to Verio to focus on access, IP security along with web hosting. After losing a deal to Exodus Communications (now Savvis) for technical reasons, the customer still wanted Peter as their local SE contact so Exodus made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. As only the third person hired in the Midwest, he helped Exodus grow from an executive suite to two enormous datacenters in the Chicago land area working with such customers as Ticketmaster, Rolling Stone, uBid, Orbitz, Best Buy and others.

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