[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[Kerry Main]

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> 
> In my experience PHB's seem to decide to purchase or use whatever's
> getting lots of mentions in the IT press.  Hardware, software, software
> development methodology .. it doesn't seem to matter.  Maybe this is an
> extension of the old "No-one gets fired for buying IBM", but this time it's
> "No-one gets fired for doing what seems popular".
> 
> Lots of mention of the "cloud". Almost no mention of VMS for 20 years.
> Which do you think will be popular and which be very rare?

Let's remember that terms like SOA were also bandied around for a
number of years by the media and vendors as THE solution all Custs
had to have. SOA washing (every product would help SOA somehow)
became the norm.

Many Cust's jumped on the SOA band wagon and ultimately many
got burned big time. This is not to say that SOA does not have some
good points, but it got misused and mis-positioned, so the result was 
many projects that went south big time. Now, many senior Custs will
throw you out on your ear if you bring up a SOA discussion with them.

The concept of distributed services has been around since the DEC
Days - anyone remember NAS (network app services)?

This is where "cloud" computing is today. It has been so misused
that I expect a Cust back lash similar to SOA.

Minus the hype -

Public clouds = selective IT outsourcing 

Private clouds = internal shared services

Pros and cons with each strategy, but these are no different than
what has been around for decades.

Given all of the high profile security challenges, concerns & outages 
with public clouds, there has been reports of something like 80%
of Cust's looking at cloud are looking at private clouds. Yes, there are
exceptions, but not the majority.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Back to the Future IT Inc.
 .. Learning from the past to plan the future

Kerry dot main at backtothefutureit dot com