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By: Bill Claybrook

Bill Claybrook — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:40:14 +0000

Can you send me a copy of the McKinsey report on Cloud computing. I don’t feel like paying $299 for it.

Bill

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Market Research Media — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:41:45 +0000

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By: Second thoughts on cloud computing « Netw82

Second thoughts on cloud computing « Netw82 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:48:45 +0000

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By: David Boeke

David Boeke — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:29:10 +0000

My biggest complaint about the report is the author’s analogy of cloud computing hype to that of the dot com boom in the late 90’s. To me this is the equivalent of presidential candidates evoking the fear of 9/11 to support their world view. There is no reasonable analogy between these two subjects.

I have some additional thoughts posted on CloudSpout.com

By: Randy Bias

Randy Bias — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:09:02 +0000

Not to nitpick, but SQS was the first AWS service.

By: Jay Cuthrell

Jay Cuthrell — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:50:23 +0000

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Google’s Enterprise Strategy May Be Solid After All — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:49:19 +0000

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By: codemechanic

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By: Is the Cloud only a question of money? - Manufacturing and Distribution Industries

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:58:09 +0000

[...] one can say is that the debate is intense and that arguments diverge. TechCrunch finds the report partly cloudy, Gigaom feels it missed the mark, while Gartner feels it lacks analytical rigor. And I could go on [...]

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Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:05:58 +0000

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By: Second thoughts on cloud computing « Network Engineering

Second thoughts on cloud computing « Network Engineering — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:06:14 +0000

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By: Actualité de la semaine | LeConseil

Actualité de la semaine | LeConseil — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:47:09 +0000

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By: Ontic Oren » Matter isn’t created or destroyed

Ontic Oren » Matter isn’t created or destroyed — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:16:46 +0000

[...] is the place for these things today, so hooray, that’s done. Then you read discussions on corporate cost efficacy, or untold other random things, and the buzz is so loud you can’t hear yourself think loud [...]

By: Chris Cera

Chris Cera — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:03:33 +0000

I can’t help but wonder if McKinsey makes less money from consulting on cloud deployments.

Also, it’s not clear that the analysis looks at the new Reserved Instance prices for EC2.

James Hamilton does his analysis on the McKinsey report, and Jeff Barr from Amazon promoted this on his Twitter account:

http://perspect...InternalIT.aspx

By: Quality systems fast is the cloud

Quality systems fast is the cloud — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:18:27 +0000

I think McKinsey missed the point. The point of services like Amazon’s are to provide highly reliable and scalable storage solutions. INSTANTLY. Building those kind of redundant systems with huge amounts of uptime and scale to tons of use is costly and most importantly it takes a long time and is hard to get right. The value is that this stuff can be had right away, quick to get started and focus on information technology and software, not the infrastructure. Its a great technology, and improved developement speed is something Mckinsey completely missed.

By: Sajai Krishnan, CEO, ParaScales

Sajai Krishnan, CEO, ParaScales — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:18:03 +0000

Full disclosure first – ParaScale sells software to enable storage clouds (Private or Public), and I used to be a partner at management consulting outfit.

A decent point of view from McKinsey – but far from the last word. All the economics are based on EC2 bashing with some very average assumptions that the whole data center is somehow going to disappear into the cloud …hmm what about certain workloads being a better fit in the public cloud and others just right in the data center. And maybe cloud storage is different from cloud compute – everything is based on EC2 with just a passing mention of S3. More on why this analysis is not the last word her http://blog.par...cale.com/?p=149. Does help in reducing the hype vector though – and I think this is good. Good for the industry to underhype and overdeliver

By: JES

JES — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:24:38 +0000

William-I agree with your comments. And I am particularly reticent to drive blindly into the storm clouds (I had to throw that in just couldn’t resist) based solely on one report from McK, Gartner, Forrester, et. al. Your points particularly the next to last paragraph. We all must look at as many of the data points as possible to come up with the compelling arguments and positions on ‘cloud’ or any other new technologies. There are certainly opportunities that can be derived from cloud-based services; we just don’t know yet what the best ones are yet.
It’s not too dissimilar to the ideas of VPN’s 5-6 years back when many IT leaders and strategists would say, “there’s no way we are putting our critical services onto the Internet.” Now look where we are IP-VPN’s, Voice services, Video, etc. All grew up and we determined through good hard engineering and planning where they worked and how they would work. Same is now true for cloud services.

So, I say, get out the pencils and slide-rules and work to determine how our respective organizations can leverage this potentially new game-changer.

Procrastination is the deadliest form of denial.

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Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:52:53 +0000

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By: JS

JS — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:27:40 +0000

I agree with McKinsey. Cloud computing is over hyped. Not only large corporations but also some of the startups have ended up spending a lot more money than what they would have if there were not gone for cloud computing. Cloud computing is still for early adopters and companies who are trying to look cool. Sure you can use fancy words like REST and Cloud to glorify your products and services but it may not really translate into a lower cost of ownership for you and your customers. I wonder if the cost will eventually go down? I doubt it though because only a handful of business can offer cloud computing for others and anyone buying their service will require these businesses to show strong balance sheets.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:43:09 +0000

Cloud Computing is changing the way people do IT in any size organizations. One of the things that should help in adoption of Cloud Computing for businesses is the right tools such as our CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 http://cloudberrylab.com.
I also believe that large companies, especially on the department level will think twice before buying new hardware/ software and may favor cloud-based services instead.

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By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:20:40 +0000

Hey not all MBA consultants are against cloud computing. Some of us are actually trying to build businesses in the cloud. (But as you can imagine the footing is still a little tentative.)