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Businesses caught out by the complexity of cloud

I have a suspicion that one of the biggest issues we will get is when you get to the stage of changing suppliers. Where will data reside? How will it be migrated? We all know how difficult this is when you have direct control over this - when it's in the Cloud? Of course, this isn't a reason not to do it, just something else to consider.

lets someone press their greed button.

The cloud is an operating system, moving to it should recieve the same sort of scrutiny from management as some wild eyed wild haired propeller head from the basement telling them they should switch to linux because all the software is free.

If the guy had combed his hair into suitable points, put a nice suit on and practiced smiling for a week we'd all be using ubuntu...

Let's see; one, two, ...

Yeah, that's about what I figured.

So the cloud is not cheaper when you actually go to use it no matter what the providers tell you.

Just how much worse are things going to get after you have shelled out that Extra Money to get In The Cloud. Seems to me that the issue here is You find the problems as you go with no clear idea of the costs involved but no matter what its Cheaper because some Salesperson said it was and you read it on the Internet.

Like everything related to the Cloud this is just spin with no substance and is something common with all of the Trendy Things that come out of Proposed IT Sales to save business money. Actually its a way to make lots of money for a Business that doesnt yet exist and con the existing business out of whatever money that they previously had made while telling them its better for them this way.

Col

We are a cloud provider and I note with interest when discussing migrations with potential new clients, that many of our competitors are simply lining their pockets with outrageous costs going in for migration services, setup charges and other extra's especially for Hosted Desktop migrations.

Although at Cloud4 we do charge for migration, it is a realistic charge that covers the real cost of engineers time. We are focused on developing long term relationships with our clients and our profits come from on-going subscriptions, not from taking advantage at the outset to make a quick buck!

However it appears not many hosting providers see it this way!

Don't worry folks, it's ALL IT's FAULT AS USUAL