But, while sales pitches may anthropomorphize "The Cloud" into a sentient and unstoppable being, the reality of "everything as a service" offerings is not quite as tidy as that—yet. And, while a few brave companies with greenfield IT projects may be grabbing onto "almost everything as a service," not everyone is ready to follow them. As many of you told us, all of these new options increase the scope and complexity of a cloud migration. While moving email from local hosting to the cloud may have been obvious (yes, it really is past time to migrate off of Lotus Notes), the vote isn't nearly as automatic with each new level of "as a service" abstraction.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/everything-as-a-service-is-coming-but-were-no
Personally, I was relieved this was mostly about Enterprise infrastructure. Still, things like Stadia https://www.stadia.com/ and Office 365 https://www.office.com/ don't give me a vote of confidence for the future. I don't know about you, but I try to reduce my monthly bills, not increase how many I have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @10:44PM (1 child)
All these company's survival depends on it IT infrastructure.
So lets setup a single point of failure.
What could possibly go wrong.
And if^H^Hwhen it does, since we outsourced it, we are not responsible.
The first N times a cloud company looses some company's data, the answer might be my bad from the cloud company.
But on loss N+1, it is on the company that chose them.
N should be zero, but with slow learners maybe 1 or 2.
I just hope the laws catch up by 10.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @10:54PM
BE that single point of failure.
So you can hold entire corporations hostage for your permission to run.
Your main challenge is finding corporate executives who will accept your free business lunch, shake your hand, and sign your papers.
Once you are "in", you got 'em by the balls.