With cloud adoption, for our clients, we’ve been very prudent about which aspects of their IT operations should go to the cloud when. We’ve tried to be both expedient and responsible. There are some obstacles to overcome for many enterprises before they can fully exploit the advantages of cloud computing.
Any implementation of cloud services for the enterprise must strike a balance between rapidly implementing a solution and a solution of increasing complexity and cost.
I like Sreedhar’s observation that the established enterprise would need to leverage cloud IT services differently than a larger enterprise. I do agree that there is probably a well-defined set of startup services that can shorten the time necessary to both establish an development environment and get useful functionality out of the other end.
I think that the assertion that cloud will result in a reduction of complexity is arguable.
