GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud

StewBeans writes: The Wall Street Journal recently published a special report on the staggering growth of the hybrid cloud, citing research from multiple sources, including survey results from Gartner indicating that 75% of large enterprises planned to take advantage of the hybrid cloud by end of this year. The article said that, "CIOs are demanding a way to combine the best of the cloud with their own localized data centers. Few companies or organizations are willing or able to move all of their IT to the public cloud." GE is apparently one of those few companies, because the CTO of Cloud for GE recently wrote that they are moving the vast bulk of their 9,000 applications into the public cloud. In the article, he explains how they came to this counterintuitive decision, their strategy for moving so many apps to the cloud, and why he's more optimistic about the public cloud versus hybrid or private.

Comments

He's an Idiot.

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First, any executive that utters the word "Cloud" is a moron. A CTO, CIO, etc who utters the word "cloud" is a fucking moron. "Cloud" is a marketing word for other people's servers.

Second moving Enterprise applications off of the company's servers is stupid and reckless. Security, accessibility, up time, backups, integrity, etc. are in the control of a company that makes its living by cutting corners and economizing. And if any of them are defense related, probably illegal.

Third, this moron "executive" is probably just trying to reduce head count and infrastructure costs, looking toward the next fucking quarterly results and doesn't intend on being around a year or two from now when it all comes crashing down.