I came across a recent article written by Kevin Fogarty of IT World, “Cloud hits peak of hype cycle; better start planning for its downfall” that discussed that no matter what stage a company is in with the cloud or virtualized environment, you still cannot get away from the limits of hardware. The article highlighted Gartner’s recent 2010 Hype Cycle Report, which found that adoption and the impact of cloud computing continues to expand with cloud computing overall, but is appearing to peak and is poised to drop into the “trough of disillusionment” in the coming years with private cloud computing still on the rise.
I agree that while there has been a lot of buzz around the cloud, there still is a resistance to move certain components away from internal operations. In another similar article in TechRepublic by Patrick Gray, “Why “the cloud” doesn’t matter”, Gray argues that the “cloud is just another boring make vs. buy decision” and that the meaning has been blown out of proportion.
The argument that’s made in these articles reinforces the considerations Sendmail recommends to IT decision makers before migrating their email infrastructure to the cloud. Moving into the New Year, Sendmail predicts that despite an increasing demand for overall IT cloud services, the cloud hype within the messaging infrastructure market will be tempered by many compliance and security risks that will prevent enterprises from transferring certain components of the messaging infrastructure to the cloud.
Check out some of the recent posts by Sendmail on the topic of the cloud, such as “Forrester Predicts the Cloud Security Market will Grow to $1.5 billion in 5 Years” and “Considering a Move to the Cloud? The Benefits and Risks You Should Know”
I am currently writing an article that is focused on the challenges enterprises’ are seeing in their email cloud initiatives-hope to publish that in next week or so, stay tuned.
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