We hear that the cloud simplifies, yet it makes things more complicated (at first). It saves us money, yet unusually high bills have surprised many IT leaders and executives. The cloud is flexible, agile, and nimble, yet many get locked into single providers with less than optimal architectures and with substantial migration costs to change. We also hear that the cloud is not as secure as our data center, even though this has been proven false time and again.
In many ways, cloud computing reflects human nature. Everyone believes their idea is best. People sometimes blindly follow their beliefs regardless of the data. No single cloud provider, cloud service, or cloud architecture is perfect. They all have things that ...
