Every Cloud has an IT lining

So I have had a quick look at the cloud and checked out a cloud provider that once was an ASP provider. In looking into this and other providers I got to thinking that every cloud has an IT lining.

Well there is going to be hardcore IT in that Cloud somewhere. That means tin, string, people and process to manage it all.

However, the great thing with the cloud is that you can be in your living room with a Pentium 4 under the living room table and an “Awesome” online brochure-ware for cloud services.

How do I differentiate between the “cloud clowns” and the real cloud providers.

Cloud will be dominated by big brand names, because the level of trust needs to be there to drive the security and comfort that people need to make the plunge will be available through high grade shark type telco and infrastructure or software providers.

Both Microsoft and Google are making a big play into the Cloud space. At the current Microsoft SharePoint conference the “on premise” or “in the cloud” mantra is very evident and SharePoint 2010 has significant multi-tenant features that will allow customers to choose as they se fit as to location and deployment of application. But as we said every cloud has an IT lining, just make sure that your is secure.