This article at InformationWeek by Chris Murphy
http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223600008
smacks directly at all those IT hardware and software marketing and advertising guys who try to influence business decision makers with a bunch of Dog and Pony shows using terms of to quote Chris’s article
” IT costs, internal customers, IT leaders, Alignment, IT systems, and “IT and the business.”
but a much bigger issue that directly reflects Cloud Computing is actual costs of problems in the computer network and with cloud computing outages in service.
Chris’s article mentions Northwestern Mutual Life assigning an actual cost to such problems.
To quote ” that causing problems in the underwriting process costs $11,000 an hour in lost productivity, and problems that keep the field force from using their client management tools costs $25,000 an hour.
Imagine the cost of a service outage from your cloud provider that takes an hour to fix. Imagine the cost if it’s a day to fix.
While I believe Cloud Computing has it’s place in the business and consumer world, I believe that executives who solely base decisions on cost need real hard numbers not only on cost savings but also costs of service outages.
