I was recently interviewed by Andy Patrizio over at Datamation.com for his article on Seven Reasons Your Cloud Deployment Might be Delayed.
Another industry expert weighed in. “It does spread the cost of infrastructure, which makes it very attractive to CFOs and CIOs struggling with massive OpEx costs for IT, but similar to a vehicle lease, you end up paying more in the long run because you do not get to write off those capital costs but rather continue to pay the provider long after they are paid for (along with a healthy profit margin). The cost tradeoff is simply not that attractive, especially for large organizations with a sunk cost in their existing infrastructure,” said Andi Mann, vice president of strategic solutions in the Office of the CTO at CA Technologies.
Read the rest of the article at http://www.datamation.com/cloud-computing/seven-reasons-your-cloud-deployment-might-be-delayed.html