Managing cloud complexity
Its early promise of simplicity has been undermined by the complexity that comes with managing hybrid services
Eight years ago, when cloud first appeared on the radar of businesses, the big pitch was about simplicity and replacing on-premise client/server infrastructure with a new agility. The downside was concerns around security, the notion that entrusting company data to a third-party provider was almost too risky to consider.
Times change. As organisations took more services from different providers in public and private clouds, while retaining legacy ...