James Staten, an analyst at Forrester who studies the cloud market believes many companies, particularly large ones, have what he calls “server huggers,” or IT officials who resist cloud deployment. Server-hugging IT leaders “have significant concerns about their ongoing value to the company if they don’t run their IT systems themselves,” said Staten. Also, he noted that there are many CEOs “who don’t know anything about technology, so their trusted advisor is the guy trying to protect his job.”
Rather like asking a Turkey to vote in favour of Christmas lunch….
For the more “forward-thinking” IT leader, cloud computing offers an opportunity of course. An opportunity to focus on bringing value to the business by reducing the costs of IT delivery and allowing the business to grow revenues knowing that IT can scale quickly to match their requirements.
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