Comments on: Is Cloud Computing just a fad? http://www.sendmail.com/sm/blog/wik/?p=736 [Secure] Messages from Sendmail Mon, 13 May 2013 04:36:21 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Dan Stevens http://www.sendmail.com/sm/blog/wik/?p=736&cpage=1#comment-6980 Dan Stevens Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:54:18 +0000 http://www.sendmail.com/sm/blog/wik/?p=736#comment-6980 I respectfully disagree. You're throwing the baby out with the bath water by assuming that slow enterprise adoption spells doom for the cloud segment as a whole. Merely because cloud computing may currently not be an ideal solution for all situations does not mean its days are numbered. Sure, you'll see slower cloud adoption rates among larger organization with complex requirements - but cloud computing already has a firm grip on the email security industry (essentially tied with hardware market share percentages). Not to mention innovations like the Hybrid approach that Sendmail employs enables organizations to get the best of both worlds which will further spur adoption of cloud services (as well as reassert the importance of a hardware presence). I've read countless articles claiming the cloud is a fad, and even more articles stating that hardware and software solutions are in the throws of death... might I suggest neither are true? I respectfully disagree. You’re throwing the baby out with the bath water by assuming that slow enterprise adoption spells doom for the cloud segment as a whole. Merely because cloud computing may currently not be an ideal solution for all situations does not mean its days are numbered. Sure, you’ll see slower cloud adoption rates among larger organization with complex requirements – but cloud computing already has a firm grip on the email security industry (essentially tied with hardware market share percentages). Not to mention innovations like the Hybrid approach that Sendmail employs enables organizations to get the best of both worlds which will further spur adoption of cloud services (as well as reassert the importance of a hardware presence).

I’ve read countless articles claiming the cloud is a fad, and even more articles stating that hardware and software solutions are in the throws of death… might I suggest neither are true?

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