Busting Cloud Computing Myths

Ashvin Vellody, Partner, Management Consulting KPMG in India and Devendra Dhawale, Associate Director, Management Consulting, KPMG in India debunk four common myths related to cloud computing.

Myth: Cloud is complimentary
The cloud is not an ‘in-or-out’ approach when it comes to handling some of your existing data center workload. The cloud is not uncompromising and does not work in a binary way.  Organizations of any size and nature can leverage benefits of the cloud without compromising any business and IT controls. Organizations now can get most of both the worlds by leveraging the existing IT infrastructure and extending some of the applications infrastructure to cloud for cost, manageability and availability. The effective way to put across this message is to say that cloud is nothing but an extension of your IT infrastructure and applications. For complete and orignial post see here