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Cloud computing is becoming an increasingly hot topic, but companies have been warned to be wary when considering cloud storage services.
The note of caution comes from Tony Reid, UK services director at Hitachi Data Systems, and Ian Osborne, project director of the Grid Computing Now initiative, who both feel that the risks do not yet necessarily outweigh the benefits.
“Cloud computing is still going through the hype cycle, and not a week goes by without yet another company, such as Google, IBM or Symantec, announcing a new cloud offering,” said Reid.
Absolutely, there is still a lot of hype or PR surrounding the cloud concept though this is not necessarily a bad thing. The more we discuss the possibilities, the more we can innovate the platform and create new solutions for the end user community. At the same point as with virtualization (and anything else), we need to be careful that we see cloud as another platform, not an answer to all our problems. Just like grid, web or citrix, moving an application from one platform to another is not going to resolve any inherent issues with the application.
Related to this is a conversation I was having with a journalist the other day “we should just make everything in the cloud”, my response to many a strange look was the following:
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