I have been writing about the benefits of migrating to the Cloud in previous articles but it is also important to highlight in which circumstances the Cloud Computing route may not be the appropriate one.
Building on some answers to a similar question asked on Quora , here is a list in no specific order of ten good reasons why Public Cloud Computing may not be a good fit for your company:
1) You drive a competitive advantage from the IT capabilities you are considering migrating
2) The IT capability or service you are considering moving is a mission critical aspect of your business
3) You operate under stringent government data security requirements (HIPAA and FISMA in the US)
4) You handle sensitive data and need to control incident responses, eDiscovery and forensic investigations
5) You need to deploy complex enterprise class applications
6) Your IT organization has not sufficient maturity to govern the additional complexity of managing additional processes and outside contracts brought by Cloud Computing
7) You run “big data” applications (i.e., financial) that require extremely low latency and/ or extreme disk I/O requirements
Read more: GetApp
Building on some answers to a similar question asked on Quora , here is a list in no specific order of ten good reasons why Public Cloud Computing may not be a good fit for your company:
1) You drive a competitive advantage from the IT capabilities you are considering migrating
2) The IT capability or service you are considering moving is a mission critical aspect of your business
3) You operate under stringent government data security requirements (HIPAA and FISMA in the US)
4) You handle sensitive data and need to control incident responses, eDiscovery and forensic investigations
5) You need to deploy complex enterprise class applications
6) Your IT organization has not sufficient maturity to govern the additional complexity of managing additional processes and outside contracts brought by Cloud Computing
7) You run “big data” applications (i.e., financial) that require extremely low latency and/ or extreme disk I/O requirements
Read more: GetApp