The hype cycle applies to outsourcing and the cloud like it applies to everything. Of course, that doesn't make them invalid.
Outsourcing isn't going away-enterprises are just realizing that there's a right time/way and a wrong time/way to do it. Future business leaders may be more equipped than the current generation to make smart choices here; I can tell you that we studied outsourcing quite a bit in grad school. The same will be true of cloud computing. We're undoubtedly around the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" now, which invariably leads to the "Trough of Disillusionment." John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Rod Trent [mailto:rodtr...@myitforum.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] Stats about IT Yeah...their track record isn't great (particularly over the last couple years), however, CIOs and CEOs still eat them up. Gartner, right now, is promoting the Cloud like there's nothing else. 3 years ago it was "outsourcing". Now, companies are bringing resources back in-house because they realized... "Oops" that didn't work. You just have to be very careful with "industry" information. It can be just as politically motivated as anything else. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
