Cloud Computing- The sky is falling?

Marketing collateral and even in Keynote addresses.  Its main purpose is to throw off the status quo and create a mind shift for what is perceived to be right and true.  According to Wikipedia, “FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence public perception by disseminating negative information designed to undermine the credibility of their beliefs. So what is the FUD about Cloud Computing and Hosting Providers using SaaS as a delivery mechanism for applications?  Well first we have to look at the negative press of late regarding the cost of deployment.  From a recent NY Times article, a quote regarding a McKinsey & Co report states “Its study uses Amazon.com’s Web service offering as the price of outsourced cloud computing, since its service is the best-known and it publishes its costs.

It sure seems like we spend an inordinate amount of time in the IT world polarizing one system against another.  The truth is Cloud Computing is an evolution of what has been going in the virtualization world for years.  If you believe the Forrester statistics, about half of the server/computing world are virtualized today.  While that number is staggering it also leaves a huge opportunity for companies to deliver applications via a virtualized approach.  The Forrester data also shows “Firms surveyed showed growing interest in pay-per-use-hosting of virtual servers, one of many types of cloud service offerings in the market.

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