Say, does anyone know how to work this cloud thing?

Too often, eager businesses overlook the time and skill set investment necessary to realize the benefits of cloud services

By  Matt Prigge 

As InfoWorld's David Linthicum pointed out a few weeks ago, the public cloud isn't likely to save you money. What you really get is a tremendous amount of pay-as-you-go agility that you'd be hard-pressed to realize with on-premise resources. At its core, that's what the cloud really does well, and it truly deserves attention for it.

It's vitally important, though, to realize that simply because your services are based somewhere else on hardware you don't own doesn't mean you'll spend less time on administration duties. In fact, you may even create skill set gaps within your IT department where there previously weren't any -- forcing you to rely upon much more expensive external help.

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http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-explosion/say-does-anyone-know-how-work-cloud-thing-867

Duane Wells

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