Often, they lead to the system being repatriated to in-house facilities. The reasons why these might fail, or, at best, be disappointing in terms of both performance and cost, are many. Moving legacy systems into the public cloud is complicated. Add in the apparent imperative for companies to digitally transform, and you can see that the Cloud might look like the answer to a drowning person’s prayers. Allegedly, both worlds speak English as their main language, but to businesspeople the words coming out of the mouths of IT folk more resemble French… you recognise some of the words, but you don’t really know what they mean.įed on the stories of faster development of business applications to meet rapidly changing business needs, not having to buy IT servers and retiring costly in-house data centres, companies having been busily mandating cloud first, or even cloud only development policies. But the world isn’t like that.Īs an IT analyst, I sometimes feel as if I exist in two parallel worlds…one where the inhabitants are all IT specialists, and most are Cloud natives, and the other where the inhabitants are mostly businesspeople and a few IT old timers who never got sucked into this new world. To be fair, if the world was all Cloud-Native, they’d probably be right. Somewhere in the dim and distant past (probably round about 2010) an alliance of cloud native enthusiasts and technology vendors spun a wonderful story about the Cloud and how businesses could get more, for less, faster by adopting it. Information Governance and Data Security.

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