In our new survey, we want you to put us out of our misery over cloud computing.
For a couple of years now, a concerted PR effort has presented hosted infrastructure and applications in the cloud as the way forward. If you believe the most gung-ho predictions, your entire IT department will be replaced by outsourced services in the cloud, and IT staff will become brokers pulling these services together for internal use.
Meanwhile, however, some say the cloud is not secure enough, and others point to the fact that many software vendors still can’t price their software right for it (yes, we mean Oracle).
We know, we know. There’s many different clouds, including public and private, infrastructure, platform and application. There’s Linux in the cloud, and Windows in the cloud. It’s difficult to define it.
Forget those details for our latest quick-and-dirty survey. Take a broad definition, and please tell us whether you are using the cloud - andif so, is it experimental, strategic… or actually, the preferred option for all your services.